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Impact of environmental flow policy on power system balancing costs and river ecosystem service benefits 环境流政策对电力系统平衡成本和河流生态系统服务效益的影响

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100269

A. Juutinen , Z. Virk , H. Huuki , E. Ruokamo , M. Kopsakangas-Savolainen , A. Torabi Haghighi , H. Marttila

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The impact of water pollution on health expenditures of residents:Evidence from urban sewage in China 水污染对居民健康支出的影响：来自中国城市污水的证据

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100268

Junkai Sun , Xin Fang , Guilin Dai , Xinyue Gao

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Assessing the economic value of water in the Colorado River Basin: A hydroeconomic analysis 评估科罗拉多河流域水的经济价值：水文经济学分析

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100266

Daniel Crespo , Mehdi Nemati , Ariel Dinar , Zachary Frankel , Nicholas Halberg

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Water savings subsidy during 2015 drought in Korea 2015年韩国干旱期间的节水补贴

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100265

Yenjae Chang , Ki-Dong Kwon , Dae-Wook Kim , Man-Keun Kim , Moon Joon Kim

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Impact of irrigation pump ownership on farm productivity in rice-wheat cropping systems of Nepal Terai 灌溉泵所有权对尼泊尔Terai水稻-小麦种植系统农业生产力的影响

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100264

Roshan Adhikari , Timothy Foster , Gokul P. Paudel , Anton Urfels , Subash Adhikari , Timothy J. Krupnik

{"title":"Impact of irrigation pump ownership on farm productivity in rice-wheat cropping systems of Nepal Terai","authors":"Roshan Adhikari , Timothy Foster , Gokul P. Paudel , Anton Urfels , Subash Adhikari , Timothy J. Krupnik","doi":"10.1016/j.wre.2025.100264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wre.2025.100264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Groundwater irrigation is critical for supporting food security, rural livelihoods, and economic development in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP) of South Asia. However, groundwater resources in the EIGP remain underutilized due to farmers' reliance on expensive diesel pumps for accessing water. This study uses primary household survey data from the Terai region of Nepal to analyse the drivers of variability in irrigation access costs across farms, and how these cost variabilities influence agricultural outcomes. We employ an endogenous switching regression model to assess the impacts of pump ownership on farm productivity and profitability. Our findings show that pump ownership reduces irrigation costs rice and wheat cultivation, the region's two major crops, by 72 % and 76 %, respectively, and increases rice and wheat productivity by 37 % and 20 %, respectively. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the positive impact of technology ownership on agricultural productivity and highlight the opportunities for policy interventions focused on improving performance of existing technologies for enabling long-term sustainable intensification of irrigated agriculture in the EIGP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48644,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources and Economics","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100264"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144904014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Household perception bias on water price in China: Asymmetric impacts and policy treatment 中国家庭对水价的认知偏差：不对称影响与政策处理

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100262

Jun–Jun Jia , Li Luo , Maorong Jiang , Huaqing Wu

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Sustainable seasonal land fallowing policy to combat groundwater overdraft in China: Insights from a choice experiment 中国应对地下水透支的可持续季节性土地休耕政策：来自选择实验的见解

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100261

Zhuanlin Wang , Hongbo Deng , Jinxia Wang , Alec Zuo , Baozhu Guan , Jiajia Wang

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Enhancing water efficiency: Distribution efficiency and consumption synergies 提高用水效率：分配效率和消费协同效应

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100260

Esther Díaz-Cano , Julio Berbel , Nazaret M. Montilla-López , Alfonso Expósito

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Water valuation in incentivized bargaining games 激励议价博弈中的水估值

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100259

Margarita Gáfaro , César Mantilla

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Water resource tax policy and micro environmental performance improvement in China's water-intensive industries 水资源税政策与中国水密集型产业微观环境绩效改善

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2025.100258

Qiao Wang (王乔) , Koji Shimada , Jiahui Yuan (袁嘉慧)

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