Although the agricultural sector consumes more than 90% of the extracted water, its efficiency is lower than other sectors. Also, according to the population growth and critical role of food security, and the necessity to supply water to other sectors, an increasing pressure to save water, optimized consumption and increasing water use productivity in agriculture will occur in the future. Nowad...

background out of eight commonly agreed millennium development goals (mdg), six are related to the attainment of universal health coverage (uhc) throughout the globe. this universalization of health status suggests policies to narrow the gap in access and benefit sharing between different socially and economically underprivileged classes with that of the better placed ones and a consequent expa...

Benefit transfer is a collection of methods widely used in costbenefit analysis and policy analysis to assess environmental values in contexts where original valuation work is deemed too expensive and/or too time-consuming. The essence of benefit transfer is conditional or unconditional prediction of environmental values in a new context. This paper proposes a hierarchical Bayesian method for b...