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of the most important raw materials in Algeria. Because of its importance, it is essential to know its vulnerability with … the climate changes. In Algeria, the vulnerability due to the climate changes is expressed through several aspects … environmental question which dominates our time and pose the major challenge to environmental organizations of control. Water is one …
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Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to …, pollutant emissions, and water /wastewater treatment, among others. Considering the critical role that water plays for … agricultural production, any shock in water availability will have great implications for agricultural production, and through …
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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to …, pollutant emissions, and water /wastewater treatment, among others. Considering the critical role that water plays for … agricultural production, any shock in water availability will have great implications for agricultural production, and through …
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planning in water management, which have been revealed and identified by carrying out the process of developing cognitive … scenarios in the Klimat project (POIG.01.03.01-14-011/08). The paper discusses scenarios for development of water management and … scenarios in water economy is presented, along with its results, which reveal the sources of uncertainties in water management …
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Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …
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water. To usefully teach water economics, it is therefore necessary to understand and cooperate with other disciplines. Many … economic concepts can be used to understand different facets of water (mis)management, but these concepts are often pushed far … those deviations and how to address them. Water economics courses can use case studies to organize these complexities and …
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Analysis of potentially interconnected residential water and energy demand is sparse. In a 1-in-10 random sample of … Singapore households living in apartments, water use per capita declines over the socioeconomic distribution, whereas … electricity use rises. Here I show that in this leading Asian city and tropical climate, water and electricity demand respond …
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This project explores capital markets risk exposure from water use in key industrial sectors in the Great Lakes region …, represented by a subset of the region's largest companies and water users. The largest industrial water users in the Great Lakes … salient to make the distinction between water withdrawal and consumptive use, whereby the former is largely returned to the …
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This study analyzes the effects of rising water supply variability provoked by climate change on the welfare of a … society whose economy heavily depends on water availability. Several studies recommend that communities should impose policies … that ensure a minimum level of water allocation for human consumption. We compare two contracts, one where society …
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