The article, titled “A scenario-based framework for assessing the economic potential of droughts impavyes” is authored by Jaume Freire (ENT), Christopher Decker and Jim Hall. It’s…
Estimating the potential economic impacts of drought is increasingly prominent in policy discussions on resilience to future population and climate changes. We develop a scenario-based…
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Santi Gorostiza (ENT fellow) has published a new article in the Geoforum journal titled “Dangerous assemblages: Salts, trihalomethanes and endocrine disruptors in the water…
On 27 March, the workshop “Water supply and water stress- roles for Economic Instruments?” was held at Pati Llimona (Barcelona). Organized by the Institute for European…
Droughts are a specific type of natural hazard. Economic assessments of drought impacts require a framework capable of accounting for its unique and particular characteristics. Traditional…
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Published in Ecological Economics a new article by Jaume Freire (ENT) on the economic impacts of droughts. Entitled “The Economic Impacts of Drought: A Framework for Analysis,” the…
Sustainable Water Resources Management has published the article “Effects of the hydraulic infrastructure on economic growth: evidence from Catalonia”, by Jaume Freire and Ignasi…
Public infrastructure has a positive effect on labour productivity and growth. However, different types of infrastructure produce different magnitudes of effects. This article contains an…
A choice experiment is undertaken to elicit preferences of scuba divers in the Marine Protected Area of Medes Islands (Spain). This is the first non-market valuation study of a typical…
Water supply restrictions due to droughts generate significant costs to many economic agents. Although these costs are difficult to assess, this article presents a methodology to quantify,…
