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Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...
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Agricultural water stress is a critical problem undermining socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability …
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We evaluate the structural consequences of water availability scenarios in the Mediterranean, following a multidisciplinary approach and a sequential modelling methodology. This includes an assessment of future water availability and a general equilibrium macroeconomic analysis of changes in...
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discusses pertinent issues related to irrigation in India and the strategies and arrangements to address water scarcity for … irrigation. The study finds that problems are largely institutional, structural, and administrative. Overcoming them is crucial …
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discusses pertinent issues related to irrigation in India and the strategies and arrangements to address water scarcity for … irrigation. The study finds that problems are largely institutional, structural, and administrative. Overcoming them is crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943365
fee decided by water supplier side. However, diverse functions are being desired to irrigation facilities in recent years … environment as typical examples. Thus agricultural water supply should be regarded as irrigation services and it is needed to … irrigation services, on it, grasp the agricultural conditions quantitatively from an economic viewpoint by such as estimation of …
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Internationally the benefit sharing approach is promoted to encourage cooperation in transboundarywater governance. Costs of cooperation are so far under researched. Attention of few international studies is limited to benefit and cost sharing practices for dam projects. Here, the case study...
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farms. The results obtained show how pricing irrigation water will have a negative impact on farms’ sustainability, since … services. This work analyses the consequences of the hypothetical implementation of different instruments for irrigation water … pricing (area, volumetric, two-part tariff and block-rate), studying their impact on the sustainability of irrigated areas …
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In the early 1990s, Thailand launched an ambitious program of decentralized governance, conferring greater responsibilities upon sub-district administrations and providing fiscal opportunities for local development planning. This process was reinforced by Thailand's new Constitution of 1997,...
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This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional … highest priority is given to the role of legal and political institutions and second priority to environmental, economic and …
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