Water Economics
Jaha
Jaha
Kartei Details
| Karten | 312 |
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| Sprache | English |
| Kategorie | VWL |
| Stufe | Universität |
| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 04.07.2025 / 04.07.2025 |
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Save water, cut costs, increase yields, and improve product quality.
Fix leaks, prevent erosion, maintain irrigation canals, and remove blockages.
Using sensors, apps, and satellites to apply water and chemicals precisely.
Key for global food security and livelihoods.
About 178 million tons (2020), nearly half from aquaculture.
Asia dominates with over 90% of employment and production.
Using water from fish farming to irrigate plants.
A group of living things and their non-living surroundings working together.
Benefits people get from nature, like food, clean water, and recreation.
Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, Supporting.
Fresh water or food.
Climate regulation or water purification.
Recreation or education.
They store a lot of carbon and affect global CO2 emissions.
When one service is improved but another is harmed.
A cost or benefit caused by someone that affects others.
When others get hurt by an action, like pollution.
When others benefit without paying, like clean air.
Because they don’t include all costs or benefits in prices.
Pollution tax, direct control, or cap-and-trade.
Charging firms for each unit of pollution they produce.
A limit on total pollution, with permits companies can buy or sell.
If property rights are clear and costs are low, people can negotiate pollution solutions.
Paying people to protect or restore nature for its benefits.
Selling rights to use water, sometimes to private companies.
Poor infrastructure and lack of access.
They can improve efficiency and invest more.
Higher prices and poor service for poor people.
Water lost due to leaks, theft, or billing errors.
To combine strengths for better service and investment.
Population size, temperature, and rainfall.
Time lost from work or school.
Assigning a fixed pollution limit to each firm.
Charging a tax on each unit of pollution.
Issuing pollution permits that can be traded.
If property rights are clear and costs low, parties negotiate efficient solutions.
Fish factory pays fashion factory to reduce pollution harming fish.
Usually lower prices and better water quality.
Profit and long-term business chances.
More GDP and better use of capacities.
