The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the
trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy …

Water is the driver of nature and its availability and quality often constitute a limit on
economic development and human welfare. Because of this primacy, the task of providing …

The government has to lead, by example, the effort for more rational water use.
Nevertheless, public buildings in countries like Brazil lack the operational and maintenance …

Backcasting, in contrast to forecasting, is a technique of policy analysis that was developed
with respect to energy policy in the 1970s and that, since then, has been expanded in the …

This research project set out to develop and apply a framework for assessing how energy
systems may be structured to help society progress towards sustainability. The general …

The aim of this paper is to compare the supply-side and demand-side approaches for
assessing the scarcity rents of irrigation water. The results obtained from the case study …

Water resources management versus the world Page 1 AIMS Geosciences, 7(4): 589–604. DOI:
10.3934/geosci.2021035 Received: 06 September 2021 Accepted: 01 November 2021 …

The purpose of this chapter is to develop a sustainability assessment framework for
understanding what a constructive and appropriate relationship with energy entails and …

This article examines urban water supply systems by using indicators such as quantity,
quality, accessibility, and reliability. Shillong city is divided into numerous localities, each …

This research study develops a framework of indicators to evaluate the 'institutional
capacity'of a municipality to implement the soft path approach. The soft path approach is a …