Search Results - subject:"Framework Directive"

On combining stated preferences and revealed preferences approaches to evaluate environmental resources having a recreational use

Paccagnan, Vania - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This work aims at analysing the value of recreational water uses for the Idro Lake (Lombardy, Northern Italy), which has been experiencing dramatic fluctuations in its levels in recent years, due to excessive productive withdrawal that affected recreational uses. It estimates the economic...

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Conclusions and policy recommendations for the E.U. Water Framework Directive

Karousakis, Katia; Koundouri, Phoebe; Assimacopoulos, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

that can feed into the EU Water Framework Directive. The knowledge that has emerged from the three projects has been …

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Risk‐efficient portfolio crop choice with amended water and irrigation policies in northern Germany

Buchholz, Matthias; Musshoff, Oliver - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) 2, pp. 373-388

of differentiated water quotas and water pricing schemes suggested by the European Water Framework Directive, while …

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Risk-efficient portfolio crop choice with amended water and irrigation policies in northern Germany

Buchholz, Matthias; Musshoff, Oliver - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) April, pp. 373-388

of differentiated water quotas and water pricing schemes suggested by the European Water Framework Directive, while …

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Tariffs and Cost Recovery in Water Reuse

Molinos-Senante, M.; Hernandez-Sancho, F.; Sala-Garrido, R. - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 6, pp. 1797-1808

In water stressed areas, water reuse has been identified as a key component of integral water resource management. However, the economics of water reuse projects are a major barrier for their implementation. The objectives of pricing for water demand management, pricing for encouraging the use...

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Applicability of multicriteria decision aid to sustainable hydropower

Vučijak, B.; Kupusović, T.; Midžić-Kurtagić, S.; … - In: Applied Energy 101 (2013) C, pp. 261-267

EU directives RESD (2001/77/EC) and WFD (2000/60/EC) can be considered as partially conflicting. Achieving a good qualitative and quantitative status of waters, what presumes “non-deterioration principle” of the existing ecological status in line with WFD, is conflicting with the...

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Spatially induced disparities in users' and non-users' WTP for water quality improvements—Testing the effect of multiple substitutes and distance decay

Jørgensen, Sisse Liv; Olsen, Søren Bøye; Ladenburg, Jacob - In: Ecological Economics 92 (2013) C, pp. 58-66

Costs and benefits of water restoration projects are not necessarily evenly spread out over the entire area affected by the project. The physical distribution of benefits is, therefore, an important parameter when conducting economic analyses of water restoration projects. Two particularly...

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A methodology for facilitating the feedback between mental models and institutional change in industrial ecosystem governance: A waste management case-study from northern Finland

Levänen, Jarkko O.; Hukkinen, Janne I. - In: Ecological Economics 87 (2013) C, pp. 15-23

Deliberative environmental policy links the formal institutional setting within which environmental policy takes place and the informal ways of thinking and doing by those whose daily work the policy influences. Despite an extensive theoretically oriented literature on policy deliberation,...

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Implementing Pollution Source Control—Learning from the Innovation Process in English and Welsh Water Companies

Spiller, Marc; McIntosh, Brian; Seaton, Roger; Jeffrey, Paul - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 1, pp. 75-94

Improving the stimulation and management of innovation by water utilities is a key mechanism through which the challenges of securing sustainable water and wastewater services will be achieved. This paper describes the process of adopting source control interventions (SCIs) by water and sewerage...

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Model Based Assessment of Nitrate Pollution of Water Resources on a Federal State Level for the Dimensioning of Agro-environmental Reduction Strategies

Kuhr, Petra; Haider, Josef; Kreins, Peter; Kunkel, Ralf; … - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 3, pp. 885-909

The main goal of the project was to assess nitrogen pollution of surface waters and groundwater in the Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany. For this purpose the hydro(geo-)logical models GROWA-DENUZ/WEKU were coupled to the agro-economic model RAUMIS in order to assess the...

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