by the utilities after two decades of reforms? We focus on electricity, gas, water, telephone in the EU 15 Member States …

The European Water Framework Directive is shaping a new conception of integrative water protection. In this article …, the consequences of the Water Framework Directive in respect to national environmental policy will be discussed in … the new conception of integrative water protection entails a fundamental change in European water protection policy and …

A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management …. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by … regulating private inefficient appropriation of open-access resources, and by making the demand for water less independent of …

principles are tested via a common format valuation study of water quality improvements across five countries. Results support … of incorporating distance decay, substitution and framing effects within transfers and presents a novel water quality …

overview of the current issues in water regulation and the provision of water services. The authors analyse the regulation of … natural monopolies, water efficiency and upstream competition in the water industry. …

water resources; water levels of rivers in the EU are assumed to decrease in the next decades. Decreasing water levels, in … turn, heavily influence the quality of these water resources. In some countries the instrument of permit trading is also … applied to the regulation of water resources (quantity and quality). This paper gives an overview of existing systems in order …