A review of household water demand management and consumption measurement

H Abu-Bakar, L Williams, SH Hallett - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid population growth and economic prosperity among other factors are exacerbating
existing water stress in the east and southeast regions of England, hence, the water sector is …

Norms, prices, and commitment: A comprehensive overview of field experiments in the energy domain and treatment effect moderators

S Vesely, CA Klöckner, G Carrus, L Tiberio… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of field experiments utilizing social norms,
commitment and price-based interventions to promote energy conservation, load shifting …

Socio-hydrological drought impacts on urban water affordability

B Rachunok, S Fletcher - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
In water-stressed regions, droughts pose a critical challenge to urban water security for low-
income households. Droughts reduce water availability, forcing water providers to invest in …

Direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign on residential water-savings

MMJ Torres, F Carlsson - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at
encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a …

Perceived price in residential water demand: Evidence from a natural experiment

CJ Wichman - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 - Elsevier
Under complicated billing structures, the price to which consumers respond remains
inconclusive. In this paper, I exploit a quasi-experiment to estimate a causal effect of price for …

Information provision and consumer behavior: A natural experiment in billing frequency

CJ Wichman - Journal of Public Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, I estimate a causal effect of increased billing frequency on consumer behavior. I
exploit a natural experiment in which residential water customers switched exogenously …

Drought in urban water systems: Learning lessons for climate adaptive capacity

L Dilling, ME Daly, DA Kenney, R Klein, K Miller… - Climate Risk …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we examine current policies to combat drought in urban areas in the United
States to illuminate lessons learned for building climate adaptive capacity. We conducted …

The role of perceived justice, political ideology, and individual or collective framing in support for environmental policies

S Clayton - Social Justice Research, 2018 - Springer
Effectively addressing environmental challenges such as climate change will require
adopting policy measures that have some impact on collective human behavior. The present …

Water in the time of corona (virus): The effect of stay-at-home orders on water demand in the desert

NB Irwin, SJ McCoy, IK McDonough - Journal of Environmental Economics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to COVID-19, many US states implemented stay-at-home orders to mitigate
disease spread, causing radical changes across all facets of consumer behavior. In this …

Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

GC Homsy, ME Warner - Utilities policy, 2020 - Elsevier
What differentiates local governments that implement water policies on equity and the
environment? Analyzing a 2015 national survey of 1,897 US municipalities, we find …