This study estimates the economic cost of mining pollution on water resources for the years 2008 and 2009 based on the conceptual framework of Environmental Efficiency (Pittman, 1981.1983, Färe et al., 1989, 1993, 2003; Rao, 2000). This framework understands such costs as the mining companies...

In places like the Valencian Region, where the climate is arid, the flow rate of the rivers is irregular, and irrigation is essential if agrarian returns are to increase, the way water was distributed among irrigators often gave rise to clashes between them. This paper begins with an analysis of...

Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio presenta un análisis, espacialmente desagregado, de la disminución en el consumo residencial de agua en el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) durante el periodo 2005-2010 e identificar las características socioeconómicas asociadas a estos...

Spanish Abstract: El reporte subregional de Centroamérica para el 8.º Foro Mundial del Agua fue elaborado por el Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (CLACDS), de INCAE Business School. Se basa en los informes de cada país preparados por los Gobiernos y...

One settled down the validity and the trustworthiness of the instruments that measure variables of perceptions (indicated by utility expectations and risk around the extraction, storage, dosage, reusability or waste of water), valuing (indicated by the agreement or the discordance of principles...

The problematic theories around the hydrologic ones are exposed. From a revision of the state of the knowledge the causal relations between the hydrologic exclusion and the State, the cultural, the society, the media, the communities, the family and the individuals are explained. Theoretical...

Being a social development project, sustainability points to the neo-liberal State as its main handicap. Before such failures, eco-social competences emerge among individuals, in order to preserve natural resources, by measuring out their consumption and diversifying its use. In that sense,...

In this document a cost efficient incentive is proposed to allow for theadoption of a Sylvopastoral system by the cattle raisers from La Miel basins(Caldas); a linear programming optimization model is solved to understandthe relationship between the traditional cattle rising and the...

Spanish Abstract: China se unió a la comunidad internacional de Naciones Unidas (ONU) poco después del establecimiento de la organización en 1945. Aunque China era tratada hasta cierto punto como un paria internacional durante los tiempos turbulentos que siguieron a la guerra civil ganada por...

This draft discusses the main instruments to mitigate environmental externalities, considering both the traditional goals of efficiency and equity and restrictions on information and technical and political feasibility. It is analyzed the program "Pico y Placa" in Medellín, a restricting...