Emissions trading schemes (ETS) have been operational to control greenhouse gas emissions in European Union since 2005. Under the EU ETS, the governments of the Member States agree on national emission caps, allocate allowances to industrial operators, track and validate the actual emissions and...

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...

This paper formulates a demand model for residential water in Sri Lanka using the Stone-Geary functional form. This functional form has two main advantages when compared with Cobb-Douglas: non-constant price elasticities and; it considers water consumption as two components – a fixed and a...