— Decentralized governance of water resources is a centerpiece of Mexico’s neoliberal reform strategy. We analyze decentralization based on urban/rural case studies in distinct geographical regions to ascertain whether it is linked to more efficient water management or sustainable use of water resources, and to examine its development implications. We assess whether or not private sector manage...

Advancing social equity has been implicitly and explicitly central to water resources policy for decades. Yet, remains largely outside of standard planning management practices. Inclusion within infrastructure is inhibited by barriers including an incomplete conceptual understanding equity, a perceived lack quantitative qualitative metrics, unclear connections between project frameworks, the ab...

Water quality management though a very important part of overall water resources management programs is also unfortunately given the last priority among all the other objectives like water supply for irrigation, drinking purpose, hydropower, flood mitigation etc. In the present paper a multiobjective waste load allocation (MOWLA) model has been developed. Though there are many MOWLA models with...

The environmental determinants of public health and social equity present many challenges to a sustainable urbanism-climate change, water shortages and oil dependency to name a few. There are many pathways from urban environments to human health. Numerous links have been described but some underlying mechanisms behind these relationships are less understood. Combining theory and methods is a wa...

An allocation scheme of water pollutant reduction is the key procedure to implement a watershed total maximum daily load (TMDL) program. In order to improve the equity for the allocation scheme of water pollutant load reduction, five indexes involved in allocation processes were selected from fields associated with society, environment, economics, and resources. The weights of these indexes wer...

During the past couple of decades, brand equity has emerged as one of the key concepts in marketing. Literature concerned with consumer brand relationship is calling for more studies in order to increase understanding of brand equity dimensions. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge by investigates the impact of brand equity, on consumers’ brand purchase int...

The consensus wisdom of active mutual fund managers, as reflected in their average overand underweighting decisions, contains valuable information about future stock returns. Analyzing a comprehensive sample of active U.S. equity funds 1984—2008, we find that stocks heavily overweighted by active funds outperform their underweighted counterparts by more than 7% per year, after adjustments for t...

We study intergenerational equity in an overlapping generations framework. We show that, even with only one commodity, no production and constant resources, it is in general not possible to treat all generations in a equitable and efficient way, when equity is defined by variants of the no-envy