Efficiently reducing natural hazard risks requires a thorough understanding of the costs of
natural hazards. Current methods to assess these costs employ a variety of terminologies …

Future water management will shift from building new water supply systems to better
operating existing ones. The variation of water values in time and space will increasingly …

Climate change, water supply limits, and continued population growth have intensified the
search for measures to conserve water in irrigated agriculture, the world's largest water user …

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental
studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different …

This chapter provides an interdisciplinary review of the drought literature. Droughts are
widely perceived as hydroclimatic hazards. In reality droughts are socioenvironmental …

Over the last 25 years, economic water policy models have evolved in concept, theoretical
and technical methods, scope and application to address a host of water demand, supply …

Droughts are a specific type of natural hazard. Economic assessments of drought impacts
require a framework capable of accounting for its unique and particular characteristics …

Urban water supplies are traditionally based on limited freshwater resources located outside
the cities. However, a range of concepts and techniques to exploit alternative water …

This study presents a quantitative national assessment of urban water availability and
vulnerability for 225 US cities with population greater than 100,000. Here, the urban …

This working paper has been prepared as one of the outputs of the 'Improved water and land
management in the Ethiopian Highlands and its impact on downstream stakeholders …