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Contrary to current notions about water abundance in Lebanon, the country is facing serious problems of unavailability …, i.e. management, ill-finance, non-integration and lack of relevant awareness on water use, the new dimension of climate … change is unfortunately adding to the water problems in the country.Databases in Lebanon are not quite consistent and …
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-Einheit). Beispielhaft wird die Materialintensität verschiedener Systeme der Energieversorgung und des Wasser- und Abwasser … for water and waste water management is compared.Based on a comprehensive systems perspective Integrated Resource …
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Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind. Inklusive ÖPPs sind mit folgenden Herausforderungen verbunden: Da Wasser als öffentliches Gut gilt …
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. Downstream Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan need irrigation water in summer, primarily to grow cotton. Regional agreements obliging … due to lack of trust between the parties. Striving for self-sufficiency in irrigation water, Uzbekistan initiated new … economic impact is limited to low-water years. …
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Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...
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We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Verschiebung zugunsten des Winterhalbjahres sowie Steigerungen der Verdunstungsraten lassen die Verfügbarkeit von Wasser als … and require well thought-out adaptation strategies. Thus, adaptation of water management is one of the major tasks to be … tackled. Changes in the monthly water balance and precipitation depths and their intra-annual shift in favor of the winter …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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