We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using … coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river … cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite for trade. Specifically, a complete market for river water may not …

that there is excellent soil moisture and ample surplus water in reservoirs. This high growth in agri-GDP is likely to …

. Natural riverbanks will provide habitat for species that particularly depend on the land water transit area. Since common … riverbanks do not provide this habitat, natural river banks increase biodiversity in the Netherlands. On the basis of technical …

the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations …

River floods are a common natural hazard in Europe, causing high mortality and immense economic damage (EM-DAT 2009 … of risk maps. In this paper, results from a pilot study in the Polesine area (Po river basin) are presented, where four … gaining knowledge about possible direct losses from river flooding events. It can also be an important tool to guide decision …

equipped with hydropower generation facilities. The methodology is applied to the Lower Ebro River in Spain. The results show … observed willingness to pay for river restoration programmes. …

The increased occurrence of extreme weather conditions leading to drought is a key development challenge. This paper … drought declarations and mayoral elections in Brazil. While accounting for current and historical rainfall patterns, the paper … drought declarations prior to the municipal election; and ii) receiving a drought declaration reinforces the electoral …

We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …