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Three approaches to measuring natural resource scarcity: theory and application to groundwater
Koundouri, Phoebe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Efficient pricing of a resource incorporates both marginal cost of extraction and scarcity rents. Since groundwater … establishing clear groundwater ownership rights, scarcity value frequently goes unrecognized and is difficult to estimate. This … the initial and most challenging step towards efficient groundwater management. Empirical analyses are based on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113754
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Air Quality Degradation: Can Economics Help in Measuring its Welfare Effects? A Review of Economic Valuation Studies
Koundouri, Phoebe; Kougea, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Air quality affects human’s well being in various ways. Air providing the most important life-support function sustains human health and enables the existence of all ecosystems. Although clean air is considered to be a basic requirement for human health and well-being, economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258498
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Water Resources Allocation:Policy & Socioeconomic Issues in Cyprus
Koundouri, Phoebe; Birol, Ekin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This book does not only aim to present and analyze the Cyprus experience in water resources management, using both local and world experts in the field. It also opts to communicate this experience to other countries that can inform, develop and improve their water resources policies by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259882
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Measuring the Economic Value of Sustainable River Basin Management: The Full-Preference Rank Method
Koundouri, Phoebe; Davila, Osiel Gonzalez; Pantelidis, … - Department of International and European Economic … - 2015
This study exploits the data from a full-preference ranking Choice Experiment (CE) designed to investigate how respondents evaluate a set of proposed improvements in the Asopos water catchment in Greece. These improvements are following the prescriptions of the European Union Water Framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161395
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Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach
Koundouri, Phoebe; Carson, Richard; Nauges, Céline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A major environmental tragedy of modern times is the widespread arsenic contamination of shallow drinking water wells in rural Bangladesh which went unrecognized for years. Large numbers of people are now starting to show a range of symptoms long associated with chronic arsenic exposure. Rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113086
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Cost�benefit analysis and efficient water allocation in Cyprus
Groom, Ben; Koundouri, Phoebe; Swanson, Timothy - Department of International and European Economic …
The scarcity of water resources in both arid and temperate countries alike is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation problems facing water users and policy-makers. In arid countries this problem is faced each day in the myriad of conflicts that surround its use.Water scarcity is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147647
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Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach
Koundouri, Phoebe; Carson, Richard; Nauges, Céline - Department of International and European Economic …
A major environmental tragedy of modern times is the widespread arsenic contamination of shallow drinking water wells in rural Bangladesh which went unrecognized for years. Large numbers of people are now starting to show a range of symptoms long associated with chronic arsenic exposure. Rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152964
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A Micro-Econometric Approach to Deriving Use and Non-Use Values of in-situ Groundwater: The Vosvozis Case Study, Greece.
Koundouri, Phoebe; Babalos, Vassilis; Stithou, Mavra; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present study attempts to estimate the shadow price of unextracted groundwater in the Vozvozi aquifer. In the … price of groundwater. This shadow price is of vital importance to the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and … EU groundwater Directive, because it allows per farm estimation of the value of groundwater. It also allows the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258554
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Using the contingent valuation method to inform sustainable wetland management: the case of the Akrotiri wetland in Cyprus
Birol, Ekin; Koundouri, Phoebe; Kountouris, Yiannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
flood attenuation, groundwater recharge and water quality maintenance, as well as conservation of biodiversity and provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258630
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The Economics of Water Resource Allocation: Valuation Methods and Policy Implications
Groom, Ben; Koundouri, Phoebe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
surface and groundwater, incorporating where necessary an analysis of water quality. The valuation exercise allows the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259463