We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …

The Water Framework Directive requires the development and implementation of river basin management plans for improving … decision-support tools for identifying the principal sources of water pollution. Integrated Basin Models provide a transparent …

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …

Water is a primary resource for several human activities, and rivers are a major source of water. River water … management is an important area of natural resource management that crosses several disciplines. Effective river water management …, valuation and principles of policy making in the context of river water management. Subsequently, the need for using this …