Institutionalization of a water user fee for watershed management

Water-energy-food nexus as a new approach for watershed resources management: a review

A Theory of User-fee Competition

We develop a two-region model where the decentralized provision of spillover goods can be financed by means of taxes or user fees. In order to enforce the fees regions have to invest in exclusion. We show that a decentralized solution tends to be inefficient. There will be over-investment in exclusion and an underprovision of the spillover goods compared to a centralized solution. In addition t...

A Stochastic Model for Water Resources Management

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

Relationship between Ethics Institutionalization and Management Accountability

Background: Accountability has been and is an important and challenging issue in most countries' administrative and political systems and lack of proper and timely response to employees leads to a climate of distrust and coldness. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between institutionalization of ethics and accountability. Method: This is an applied research...

Watershed Management and Adaptation to Environmental Change: A Case Study of Water User Associations in the Colombian Andes

This study explores how Water User Associations in the rural Andes of Colombia adapt to degradation of their water sources. In the Andean region of South America, understanding local governance is particularly important for water management as many rural communities receive minimal government support and the communities themselves must decide if and how they will protect their watersheds and di...