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"There has been extensive debate in the experimental economics literature as to the validity of extending the results of student experiments to more complex real world settings, characterised by the economic behaviour of diverse participants. This paper uses an experimental design that formally...
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argue that a more service-orientated (WASH, irrigation and ecosystem services), locally rooted and balanced approach to IWRM …
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"Waterfowl harvest management in North America, for all its success, historically has had several shortcomings, including a lack of well-defined objectives, a failure to account for uncertain management outcomes, and inefficient use of harvest regulations to understand the effects of management....
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"We used multi-agent systems (MAS), following the companion modeling method, to facilitate water management negotiations in Bhutan. We show how this methodology helped resolve a conflict over the sharing of water resources by establishing a concrete agreement and creating an institution for...
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forest or irrigation system). Increasingly, practitioners and researchers realize that individuals often contribute to …
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"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...
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"To date there has been limited research on integrated water resource management, specifically regarding investments, from a global perspective, largely due to the complexity of the problem and to generally local water management practices. Water demand and supply are very often affected by...
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"We explore the efficiency and equity resulting from allocation of a fixed resource within a bargaining institution, using a modification of the Ultimatum Game with asymmetric productivity and a surplus-sharing step that permits us to explore trust. Sharing allows pie division independent of pie...
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increasing demand. That paper concludes that the irrigation sub-sector shapes water policy ahead of other sectors like tourism …
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recent theoretical developments in nonequilibrium analysis. Using the Navaho Indian Irrigation Project as a case study, this … the developmental history of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project from a nonequilibrium perspective. The paper concludes …
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