Over the last two decades, water smart metering programs have been launched in a number
of medium to large cities worldwide to nearly continuously monitor water consumption at the …

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 …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including
the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular …

A better understanding of household water use in develo** countries is necessary to
manage and expand water systems more effectively. Several meta-analyzes have examined …

Regulation and political opposition often force water utilities to rely on nonprice approaches
to manage water demand. Using randomized field experiments in three different water …

This article surveys the literature on the economics of water scarcity and water demand. We
examine demand estimation in diverted uses (urban, agricultural, and industrial), as well as …

We deliver a public policy perspective on the dichotomies, dilemmas, and decisions of water
pricing. First, the dichotomies between price and value, and costs, are defined to explain the …

Using survey data of around 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the
driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit …

Rather than allowing urban water prices to reflect scarcity rents during periods of drought-
induced excess demand, policy makers have mandated command-and-control approaches …