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Carlos A. López-Morales, Maria Azahara Mesa-Jurado
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This paper reports research estimating the costs of replacing the groundwater that the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Toluca, and Cuernavaca, in Central Mexico, pump from 10 over-exploited aquifers with 6 supply alternatives of surface water. These a...
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Carlos A. López-Morales and Maria Azahara Mesa-Jurado
This paper reports research estimating the costs of replacing the groundwater that the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Toluca, and Cuernavaca, in Central Mexico, pump from 10 over-exploited aquifers with 6 supply alternatives of surface water. These a...
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John B. Braden, Maria Christina Jolejole-Foreman and Daniel W. Schneider
Efforts to observe humans in relation to nature over time and at large scale are few and disjointed in ways that impede progress in building scientific foundations for sustainability. Two water-oriented national-scale case studies highlight the challenge...
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Hyojae Jung and Chanjin Chung
This study estimates consumers? willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainability turfgrass attributes such as low-input and stress-tolerance attributes, while considering potential trade-off relationships between aesthetic attributes and sustainability attrib...
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James F. Canning and Ashlynn S. Stillwell
Agricultural intensification has had the undesirable effect of degrading water quality throughout the United States. Nitrate pollution presents a difficult problem for rural and urban communities, and it contributes to the immense Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia ...
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David Katz
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Most water managers use a mixture of both supply-side and demand-side policies, seeking to capitalize on the relative advantages of each. However, supply augmentation undertaken to avoid overdrafts can reduce the effectiveness of demand management polici...
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David Katz
Most water managers use a mixture of both supply-side and demand-side policies, seeking to capitalize on the relative advantages of each. However, supply augmentation undertaken to avoid overdrafts can reduce the effectiveness of demand management polici...
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Shihao Shan, Hongzhen Ni, Xichen Lin and Genfa Chen
As one of the important policy measures to promote water conservation and efficient utilization, the evaluation of water resources tax reform policy regarding its water saving and economic impact (WSEI) is a fundamental prerequisite for policy implementa...
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C. Kenneth Meyer, Richard B. Strong, Jeffrey A. Geerts, Doug Bennett
With water conservation and use policy considered to be among the greatest challenges facing contemporary society, this case takes on the enduring issues associated with water and how it impacts urban planning, land use, water conservation, economic deve...
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Temmy Wikaningrum,Bambang Pramudya Noorachmat,Erliza Noor
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Environmental management in industrial estate is the strategic policy model which is needed to be developed referring to the Indonesian Government Decree number 24 year 2009, that state almost all of the new industrial developments should be located in i...
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Marzieh Motallebi, Caela O?Connell, Dana L. Hoag, Deanna L. Osmond
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Over half of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds in the United States are threatened or impaired, mostly by nutrients. One policy to improve water quality is water quality trading (WQT). While the concept is appealing, adoption of conservation practices in thes...
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Marzieh Motallebi, Caela O?Connell, Dana L. Hoag and Deanna L. Osmond
Over half of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds in the United States are threatened or impaired, mostly by nutrients. One policy to improve water quality is water quality trading (WQT). While the concept is appealing, adoption of conservation practices in thes...
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Daniel Matulic, ?eljko Andabaka, Sanja Radman, Goran Fruk, Josip Leto, Jak?a Ro?in, Mirta Rastija, Ivana Varga, Tea Tomljanovic, Hrvoje Ceprnja and Marko Karoglan
Agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics combine renewable energy production with agriculture and aquaculture. Agrivoltaics involves placing solar panels on farmland, while aquavoltaics integrates photovoltaic systems with water bodies and aquaculture. This paper e...
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Adalet Dervisoglu
Ramsar Convention (RC) is the first of modern intergovernmental agreement on the conscious use and conservation of natural resources. It provides a platform for contracting parties working together to develop the best available data, advice, and policy r...
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Yangnan Guo, Guoqing Chen, Rigan Mo, Meng Wang and Yuying Bao
Soil erosion is the main threat to the stability of ecological environment and the harmonious development of society in Shendong Mining Area. The main causes of this threat include the strong interference of natural characteristics and land development. ...
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Amirreza Sharifi, Sangchul Lee, Gregory W. McCarty, Megan W. Lang, Jaehak Jeong, Ali M. Sadeghi and Martin C. Rabenhorst
The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model has been widely used to assess changes in agrochemical loadings in response to conservation and management led by US Department of Agriculture (USDA). However, the existing APEX model is limited...
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Wieslaw Fialkiewicz, Ewa Burszta-Adamiak, Anna Kolonko-Wiercik, Alessandro Manzardo, Andrea Loss, Christian Mikovits and Antonio Scipioni
Water resources conservation corresponding to urban growth is an increasing challenge for European policy makers. Water footprint (WF) is one of the methods to address this challenge. The objective of this study was to develop a simplified model to asses...
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Alfonso Expósito, Julio Berbel
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This paper analyses the agricultural irrigation water use in a closed basin and the impacts on water productivity, and examines how they have affected the ?closure? process of the Guadalquivir river basin observed in recent decades. Following a period of...
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Soon-Kun Choi, Jaehak Jeong and Min-Kyeong Kim
The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model is widely used for evaluating agricultural conservation efforts and their effects on soil and water. A key component of APEX application in Korea is simulating the water quality impacts of rice ...
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Alfonso Expósito and Julio Berbel
This paper analyses the agricultural irrigation water use in a closed basin and the impacts on water productivity, and examines how they have affected the ?closure? process of the Guadalquivir river basin observed in recent decades. Following a period of...
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