The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional …, property rights and collective actions. Based on these theories, we review the evolution and development of water reforms and … the Spanish and international experience on water markets, a list of robust recommendations for the improvement of water …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow …, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether water allocation agreements can be … self-enforcing. An agreement is modelled as the outcome of bargaining game on river water allocation. Given this agreement …

We present an axiomatic approach to the reallocation of water rights among economic sectors. Reallocation may be … appropriate when the current schedule of water allocation is considered unfair. Our proposed approach is based on the combination … of initial water rights, sectors' claims to water, and an exogenous ordering of these sectors. We apply sharing rules …

, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India. For India …, Water of Brahmaputra constitutes a major lifeline for people of Tibet and North Eastern states. The building of dams and … requirement of fresh water as the pollution grows and population rise has forced China to have the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River …

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water … uses and defines more stringent constraints to access to publicly provided water during droughts, especially for non … activities exposed to water restrictions. This paper develops a stochastic methodology to estimate the expected water …