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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Does anybody give a dam? The importance of public awareness for urban water conservation during drought
Autores: | Aisbett,   Emma; Steinhauser,   Ralf.
Data: | 2011-06-23
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Water use; Demand management; Pricing; Behavioral aspects; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Demand management has been of interest in dry climates such as Australia, Spain and the Western United States for decades. It is particularly important to understand policy options during drought conditions, as drought periods have a disproportionate effect on supply infrastructure decisions. While water‐conservation campaigns aimed at inducing voluntary consumption reductions are almost universally employed by water managers in times of supply constraint, voluntary measures are generally dismissed in the economics literature as ineffective. We argue that the robust positive correlation between dam levels and consumption after controlling for policy changes suggests that there is a significant component of voluntary conservation. Furthermore, omitting dam levels from regressions may bias estimated impacts of policy changes.
Tipo: | Report
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

ISSN 1835-9728

http://purl.umn.edu/107850

Relação:

Australian National University&gt;Environmental Economics Research Hub&gt;Research Reports

Environmental Economics Research Hub

EERH RR 100

Formato: | 35