Food demand is strongly correlated to population growth and income growth. Both will lead to a strong demand increase in the future. At the same time, the agricultural products will increasingly be needed as energy resources. Boundaries to production growth are given by resources such as land...

In this essay the European energy and climate protection policy and its effects on developing countries are to be discussed. Are their nutrition problems being deteriorated or do additional exports establish opportunities for a sustainable development? I argue that coherence of energy security...

We study the problem caused by international transfrontier pollution. Our re-sults are derived from the analysis of an incomplete information, non-cooperative game model of the determination of emissions in a quantity-rationing setting. We model the emission capping negotiations using the best...

We examine how scarcity pricing can be used to assist with urban water demand management in Sydney in low rainfall periods using an estimated aggregate daily water demand function. Modelling shows that current water supplies and water prices are inadequate to prevent Sydney reaching critically...

The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former reason. We use a household survey from Hyderabad city and estimate the contribution of...

Water is a classic common pool resource, especially during drought. This paper studies the impact of changing storage levels on urban water usage in the context of a prolonged drought and an extensive public information campaign which emphasized communal responsibility for maintaining ‘dam...

Water is a classic common pool resource, especially during drought. This paper studies the impact of changing storage levels on urban water usage in the context of a prolonged drought and an extensive public information campaign which emphasized communal responsibility for maintaining ‘dam...

Appropriate pricing of water is critical for improving the efficiency of pipe-borne water supply systems in many developing countries. However, existing literature on residential, industrial and commercial water demand has primarily focused on developed countries. This paper estimates the demand...

The 2003 CAP reform considerably affects cropping patterns in European agriculture. At the same time the imperatives of the forthcoming Water Framework Directive (WFD) is expected to modify irrigation decisions especially in Southern Europe where irrigated agriculture utilizes about 70-80% of...

En este artículo se analiza la demanda urbana de agua en alta a partir de datos mensuales de 42 municipios situados en la cuenca del Segura, para el período 2000-2006. La estimación econométrica realizada permite afirmar que el precio, la renta y la población son las variables que mayor...