The legislative framework for controlling stormwater runoff emanates from two federal acts; the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Coastal Zone Management Act. Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) subjects point sources to direct, uniform and effective federal...

This paper presents major environmental challenges in Bulgarian agriculture, and identifies and assesses specific modes for environmental governance in farming sector, and estimate prospects for changing environmental performance of farms in conditions of EU integration and Common Agricultural...

Cities and their populations have suffered from the impacts of accelerated urbanization, with natural disasters, especially involving urban waters. The human and material losses witnessed in recent years, in Brazil and in the world, call attention to the importance of the transition to more...

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...

The American West is notorious for its water wars, and California’s complex water allocation and governance challenges serve as a bellwether for contemporary water governance across western states. Policy makers and environmental advocates typically represent California’s water woes as a...

Over the past dozen years, a number of large dams in the Pacific Northwest have been removed in an effort to restore riverine ecosystems and dependent species like salmon. These dam removals provide perhaps the best example of large-scale environmental remediation in the 21st century. This...

This article is focused on modeling and analysing the cost structure of water supplying companies. A cross-sectional data set was collected with respect to water firms in rural areas of East and West Germany. The empirical data is analysed by applying a symmetric generalized McFadden (SGM)...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using data for 112 major cities between 2001 and 2004. Using disaggregated data we separate FDI inflows from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from those of other foreign economies. We...

One settled down the validity and the trustworthiness of the instruments that measure variables of perceptions (indicated by utility expectations and risk around the extraction, storage, dosage, reusability or waste of water), valuing (indicated by the agreement or the discordance of principles...

La región Andina Oriental está conformada por los departamentos de Norte de Santander, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima, Huila y la ciudad de Bogotá. Comprende el 37% de la población de Colombia, en 450 municipios y dos distritos, abarcando un territorio de casi 145.000 kilómetros...