different types of case study regions by geography and market, the rural recreation region of the Siljan Lake District in Sweden … detriment of established European destinations. Coastal resorts and rural recreation areas providing services aimed at people on …

benefits of preventing toxic water contamination when a given type of toxification occurs (or is likely to occur) in a given … paper also provides reasonable "scenarios" for three toxic pollutants that are found in water bodies (surface water or …

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) proscribes specific levels of contaminates present in rivers and lakes in the UK … drinking water additives such as iron dosing. Water companies must provide effective treatment methods which will reduce … contaminates in the water to allowed levels. The selection of effective treatment method poses a sustainability problem as there …

retailing bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use non linear pricing …

Whereas water is an important input in rice production, China faces severe problems with increasing demand for water … and limited water resources. In conventional paddy production, one of the most important irrigated crops, a significant … amount of irrigation water is lost due to percolation and evaporation. Therefore, it exist a vivid research in water saving …

Water availability in semiarid regions commonly exhibits patterns of extreme variability. Even in basins with large … infrastructure development, some users are subject to low levels of water reliability, incurring economic losses during periods of … scarcity. More flexible instruments, such as voluntary exchanges of water among users, may help users reduce their risk …

developed is further implemented in an empirical application that studies water for irrigation use as a particular case. Results … show how multi-attribute utility functions elicited for a sample of 52 irrigators explain differences on irrigation water … use in relative homogenous agricultural systems, albeit exhibiting similar water partial utility functions. We conclude …

of this scarce resource is rapidly increasing,(Rosegrant et a, 2002). Therefore, the need to promote inter-sectoral water … productive sectors and sub-sectors to water prices. Extracting data from the GTAP and UNIDO databases and adopting the marginal … estimated, from which the output and price elasticities and the marginal value of water is computed for thirteen sectors. The …