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In the next few years, India will be the most populous nation on earth. This large population will need a huge increase in agricultural productivity. At the same time, agricultural activity is highly energy and resource intensive. Moreover, many places in India are facing water crisis. Therefore...
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Nature provides critical ecosystem services on which society and businesses rely, but the effort and cost of utilizing those services can change with the climate. Both climatic trend and variance affect these efforts and costs, creating a complex decision space where uncertain future predictions...
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A study of a watershed planning process in the Cache River Watershedin southern Illinois revealed that class divisions, based on property ownership, underlay key conflicts over land use and decision-making relevant to resource use. A class analysis of the region indicates that the planning...
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had access to safe water and only 35% had access to a safe sanitation system. In Latin America and Brazil, the fact is no … for Water and Sanitation Services (OCSAS), or community water management (GCA), whose actions are aligned with the United … the participation of social organizations, in addition to the actions of the State and sanitation companies, to enable …
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This working paper presents an up-to-date and prospective assessment of water security throughout the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, with a focus on infrastructure needs, to aid in strategic thinking towards planning and management in key water-using sectors such as agriculture,...
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with precarious water or sanitation services that must be considered, benefiting 35.7 million inhabitants. It is also …
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Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because it increases the time...
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This paper evaluates the effects of a public groundwater provision program on water tables in Northern India. I theorize that public provision leads to sustainable use of groundwater when the fixed costs for private well provision are high. I use village-level longitudinal data on aquifers and...
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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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safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation systems. In Togo, the government struggles to provide the population with … access to water and sanitation, despite a proactive policy. We argue that a connection to safe water and sanitation increases … and sanitation with real estate policies, so that the poorest households remain beneficiaries of the pro-poor policies. …
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