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Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as a Cross-Hedging Instrument Against Climate Change : The Cases of Reservoir Water Allocation Management in Guanajuato, Mexico and Lambayeque,...

Juarez-Torres, Miriam - 2013

design of water systems, institutions and infrastructure- could hinder the implementation of adaptation policies in water … successful adoption of more efficient water allocations in irrigation districts. Weather derivatives spread risks and incorporate … a better understanding of climate system behavior, strengthening irrigation districts' ability to deal with water …

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Balancing the Discussion of Benefit Sharing in Transboundary Water Governance : Stressing the Long-Term Costs in an Empirical Example from Central Asia

Soliev, Ilkhom - 2020

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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The Middle East : Climate Change, Water Insecurity and Hydrodiplomacy

Kornfeld, Itzchak E. - 2015

During the 1990s scholarship about water security abounded. However that debate abated at the ‎turn of this century. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water resources, and the concomitant water insecurity that...

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Chapter 1. Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects of Environmental Degradation

Bolin, Bert - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 7-59). 2003

The environmental system is characterized by an interplay of geophysical and geochemical processes that provide a setting for life. Now that human interventions are affecting the global system as a whole, it is important to distinguish between changes of natural origin and changes brought about...

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Sinking land : Optimal control of subsidence

Sen, Suphi; Verhoeven, Dewy; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in deltaic regions requires lowering the groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however,...

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Market Mechanisms for Recovering Water in the Murray-Darling Basin

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia

in the Murray Darling Basin could be improved, in a report released today. The buyback and a larger irrigation …

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Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the … (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description …

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Assessing environmental management in agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...

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Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

the impacts of EU CAP on environmental sustainability of farms of different juridical type, size, specialization and …

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Water Resources 2030 : Policy Recommendations

Proskuryakova, Liliana - 2015

analyse possible trajectories of development in the three thematic areas (i) sustainability of water systems; (ii) water use …

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