For want of appropriate and effectual methodological approaches or analytical instruments,
analysis of socio-economic phenomena can sometimes be problematic. As Frances et al …

Green growth, the promotion of energy efficiency and clean energy technologies and
sustainable development are frequently viewed as complementary goals by international …

Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical
policy measures for'greening'modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable …

The growing risk of water crises, including drought, is one of the greatest challenges in the
coming decades. Averting such crises will be especially daunting, given that they are just as …

This article synthesizes the growing empirical literature on transaction costs to identify
pragmatic design recommendations for environmental and natural resource policies. The …

Water markets are increasingly proposed as a demand-management strategy to deal with
water scarcity. Water trading arrangements, on their own, are not about setting bio-physical …

Water markets and associated allocation policy reforms have struggled to achieve their
intended goals in many water-stressed rivers, in part due to the institutional friction imposed …

Understanding the complex relationship between water, agriculture and poverty (WAP) is
essential for informed policy-making in light of increasing demand for scarce water …

The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the
trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy …

Despite an overall budget increase for rural development in the new programming period
(2007–2013), most older Member States in the now expanded European Union are facing a …