Application of advanced techniques to ensure the environment sustainability and freshwater
ecosystem conservation is a paramount importance. Industrial sector is mostly accused for …

Throughout the past decades, water resource allocation literature has increasingly
addressed equity and justice. Despite this, there is a divergence between what different …

Ecological restoration is key to counteracting anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and
to reducing disaster risk. However, there is limited knowledge of barriers hindering the wider …

Droughts can affect a multitude of public and private sectors, with impacts developing slowly
over time. While droughts are traditionally quantified in relation to the hydrological …

The evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of Payments for ecosystem services (PES) in
fostering positive environmental outcomes has been central to the scientific debate on their …

Water markets are well known for improving the efficient use and reallocation of water, and
the southern-connected Murray-Darling Basin water market is recognised as the most …

Increasing competition for freshwater underscores the need for scalable solutions to
manage and mitigate the impacts of freshwater scarcity. Appropriate rules and incentives …

Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires member states to take account
not only of the principle of cost recovery of water services, including environmental and …

Region-specific groundwater policies are required to regulate groundwater extraction for
agricultural irrigation and reduce climate change adaption externalities. We examine the …

The reclaimed water is an effective tool for water environmental management. And in China,
government intervention is regarded as a powerful instrument to realize its large-scale …