Comparative assessment of water markets: insights from the Murray–Darling Basin of Australia and the Western USA Tập 14 Số 2 - Trang 175-193 - 2012
R. Quentin Grafton, Gary D. Libecap, Eric C. Edwards, Robert O’Brien, Clay Landry
Water markets in Australia's Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) and the western USA are compared in terms of their ability to allocate scarce water resources. The study finds that the gains from trade in the MDB are worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year (note that all monetary units of dollars in this article are treated as US$ because Australian$ are converted at par). Total market turno...... hiện toàn bộ Opportunities for saving and reallocating agricultural water to alleviate water scarcity Tập 19 Số 5 - Trang 886-907 - 2017
Brian D. Richter, James Dean Brown, Rachel DiBenedetto, Adrianna Gorsky, Emily Keenan, Chantal Madray, Martha Morris, Devin Rowell, Susan Ryu
As water scarcity worsens globally, there is growing interest in finding ways to reduce water consumption, and for reallocating water savings to other uses including environmental restoration. Because irrigated agriculture is responsible for more than 90% of all consumptive water use in water-scarce regions, much attention is being focused on opportunities to save water on irrigated farms....... hiện toàn bộ Implications of India's biofuel policies for food, water and the poor Tập 10 Số S1 - Trang 95-106 - 2008
Deepak Rajagopal
Increasing consensus about the end of cheap oil, the consequences of global warming and the need for rural development are catalyzing the expansion of biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel. While most nations are promoting the expansion of conventional crops, India's strategy for biofuels is to promote Jatropha curcas, a drought-tolerant, perennial crop with little prior commercial track rec...... hiện toàn bộ A never-ending debate: demand versus supply water policies. A CGE analysis for Catalonia Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 694-708 - 2012
María Llop, Xavier Ponce-Alifonso
Water scarcity is a long-standing problem in Catalonia, as there are significant differences in the spatial and temporal distribution of water throughout the territory. There has consequently been a debate for many years about whether the solution to water scarcity must be considered in terms of efficiency or equity, the role that the public sector must play and the role that market-based ...... hiện toàn bộ Water policy and regional economic development: evidence from Henan province, China Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 397-416 - 2021
Hefei Bai, Ke Tang, Ximeng Zhao, Zhijian Yu
Abstract
With the rapid advance of industrialization and urbanization and the intensified impact of global climate change, the contradiction between the global water shortage and economic growth has become prominent. This paper, taking Henan province as an example, analyzed the influence of water resource policy on regional economic growth through a ...... hiện toàn bộ