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The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons...
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substitutes or complements using an individual-level dataset of groundwater usage that accounts for 3% of US irrigated agriculture … reciprocity- and/or race-to-depletion-like dynamics are key to understanding groundwater usage. …
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We investigate the strategic nature of farmers' groundwater usage with a rich dataset from the American Midwest. We … propose a new revealed preference test for the groundwater interaction as a dynamic game. We reject a view of groundwater …
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-treated groundwater diminishes the progression of CKDu; thus, proper maintenance of these RO plants is indispensable to protect public … health. This study investigated the quality characteristics of groundwater in the endemic areas of CKDu; the performance … analyzed feedwater (i.e., groundwater) and treated water from 32 RO plants in Anuradhapura District, comprising 27 in the CKDu …
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Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy … makers to identify areas that are vulnerable to public health. This paper develops, for the first time, groundwater risk maps …
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of high-yielding seeds of rice and wheat, laying networks of irrigation and facilitating ground-water usage, over … dependent on groundwater, nitrogenous fertilizers, and pesticides. The side-effects of indiscriminate use of groundwater took a …
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settings. In this study, 397 groundwater pumps were observed in Plateau State, Nigeria over 12 months in 2021. Two hundred of …
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This study analyses a complex social-ecological system (SES), the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, in the … environmental water users compete for shrinking groundwater resources. The core of the conflict lies between a heterogeneous group … of farmers, who use groundwater for irrigation agriculture supported by a strong political lobby, and the water …
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