Hussain Sagar, a lake constructed in 1562, joins the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in India, and is used for a variety of recreational purposes. Like many lakes in urban India, this lake is threatened by its increasingly polluted waters. In this study, we seek to estimate demand for...

Consultation with and inclusion of the public on measures to manage and improve water resources is a key tenet of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). This involves establishing people’s opinions but also the perspectives (both metaphoric and literal) which inform these. In particular water is...

Seit dem Jahr 2000 bestehen in der Europäischen Union durch die Wasserrahmenrichtlinie Wasserqualitätsziele für Grundwasser sowie Oberflächen- und Küstengewässer. Für Niedersachsen wurden alle relevanten diffusen und punktuellen Nährstoffeinträge, -frachten und der erforderliche...

We develop a two-stage, multinomial logit model of UK land use to investigate the impact of policychanges upon agriculture. The model utilizes a large panel database covering the entirety of Englandand Wales for 14 years between 1969 and 2004 integrated with the economic and physicalenvironment...

An analysis for the implementation of the Nitrate Directive in the EU indicates that probably only three of 15 countries have implemented the directive satisfactorily. These countries are Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Austria, however other countries are in the process of getting their...

The European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) has “the purpose to protect and preserve water resources across the European Union to ensure future sustainable use” but is likely to add to agricultural land losses, e.g. to infrastructure, industrial estates and housing. While the...

With the enforcement of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD), policy makers arerequired to pursue the improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater...

Diffuse pollution from agriculture is often responsible for observed concentrations of agricultural compounds being in excess of the upper limits prescribed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in some river catchments and reductions in these concentrations will require widespread changes...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance. Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and...

Durch die Festsetzung von Umweltqualitätsgrenzwerten werden vorgegebene Umweltqualitäts- oder Schutzziele operationalisiert. Im Operationalisierungsprozess (dem Grenzwertsetzungsprozess) sind jedoch Fehlentscheidungen aufgrund von Unsicherheiten in der Bewertung gegebener...