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Water is an economic good: How to use prices to promote equity, efficiency, and sustainability
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The role of prices in the water sector and how they can be used to promote equity, efficiency, and sustainability is discussed in this article. But water has been recognized as an economic good for many centuries before 1992.About:
This article is published in Water Policy.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 649 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water pricing & Equity capital markets.read more
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The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter‐globalization, Anti‐privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a generic conceptual model of market environmentalist reforms, and explore the contribution of this framework to debates over 'ne- oliberalizing nature' in water privatization.
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Hydro-economic models: concepts, design, applications, and future prospects.
Julien J. Harou,Manuel Pulido-Velazquez,David E. Rosenberg,Josué Medellín-Azuara,Jay R. Lund,Richard E. Howitt +5 more
TL;DR: This paper identifies the key steps in model design and diverse problems, formulations, levels of integration, spatial and temporal scales, and solution techniques addressed and used by over 80 hydro-economic modeling efforts dating back 45 years from 23 countries.
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Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales
TL;DR: The 1989 privatization of the water supply sector in England and Wales is a much-cited model of market environmentalism, the introduction of market institutions to natural resource management as a means of reconciling goals of efficiency and environmental conservation as discussed by the authors.
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Energy requirements for water production, treatment, end use, reclamation, and disposal
Anand Plappally,John H. Lienhard +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the available literature on energy intensity for water use in the municipal and agricultural sectors and separating the process into several stages is presented in this article, where water supply, water treatment, residential end use, wastewater treatment, and agriculture end use are considered.
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Ecohydrology - the scientific background to use ecosystem properties as management tools toward sustainability of water resources.
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Environmental Management and Economic Development
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Second Water Utilities Data Book: Asian and Pacific Region
TL;DR: The Second Water Utilities Data Book for the Asian and Pacific Region as mentioned in this paper provides information from 50 water utilities in 31 DMCs and is based largely on 1995 data, including the results of consumer surveys, a section on private sector participation, comparisons with information in the rst Data Book, and greater analytical depth.
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Marginal opportunity cost as a planning concept in natural resource management
David Pearce,Anil Markandya +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the marginal opportunity cost (MOC) is defined as the social costs of resource depletion in the context of models of the development process which stress the relationship between environment and development as a coevolutionary one rather than one of trading off material gain against environmental quality.
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Financing water supply and sanitation under Agenda 21
John Briscoe,Harvey A Garn +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the financing challenges which have to be met by developing countries if water resources are to be managed efficiently, if the quality of the aquatic environment is to be improved and if water related services are delivered in a responsive, efficient and equitable way.