Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

This paper aims to report the construction process of Environmental Economic Accounts for Water in Brazil and its …

This paper explores the potential of "boundary work" perspectives for enhancing current approaches in water resources … currently leading approaches for water and natural resources management, i.e. Integrated Water Resources Management, Adaptive … Management, and the Ecosystem Approach. Given the political dimension of water resources management, questions of governance are …

This paper assesses the economic benefits of 57 World Bank Group-sponsored hydropower dam plant investments. Hydropower … the world. Hydropower dams are often a lower-cost option for power generation in Clean Energy Transition for addressing … global climate change. Despite its conspicuous aspects, constructing hydropower dams has been controversial. Considering the …

This study is an attempt to determine whether the need to get hydropower project appraisals perfectly right during the … Hiding Hand dominates the Malevolent Hiding Hand in the selected World Bank-financed hydropower projects (33% v. 21%) and … placing some weight on proceeding with hydropower projects that shows significant promise even if all the implantation risks …