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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 330.015195 G000 CAM Record No: H047139)
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3 Adam-Bradford, A.; Gebrezgabher, Solomie. 2018. Briquettes from municipal solid waste (COOCEN, Kigali, Rwanda) - Case Study. In Otoo, Miriam; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.61-71.
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4 Smith, M.; Cross, K.; Paden, M.; Laban, P. (Eds.) 2016. Spring: managing groundwater sustainably. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 132p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 553.79 G000 SMI Record No: H049069)
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This paper assesses the feasibility and robustness of an index-based insurance scheme against hydrological droughts under climate change. To this end, we develop a grand ensemble that samples both modeling and scenario uncertainty in the estimation of the insurance risk premium, so to reveal potential unfavorable surprises and minimize regret in the design of the proposed insurance scheme. The grand ensemble combines four microeconomic models and seven GAMLSS models, which are run for three alternative climate change scenarios: stationary climate/no climate change, RCP 2.6, and RCP 8.5. Methods are illustrated with an application to the Cega River Sub-basin (CRS) in central Spain. Results indicate that for a conventional deductible of 30%, the proposed index-based insurance scheme would be actuarially feasible and affordable under all models for the stationary climate scenario (i.e., robust). For climate change scenarios RCP 2.6 and 8.5 and a 30% deductible, the suggested index-based insurance would be actuarially feasible under most models, albeit some outliers point towards potential unfavorable surprises. Lower deductibles decrease feasibility, particularly for deductibles <10%.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051729)
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In water buyback programs a public institution (the water bank) purchases predetermined amount of water from willing sellers, part of which can be reallocated to users in a subsequent lease phase. This makes possible to buy water at low monopsonistic prices and sell a fraction of this water at high monopolistic prices, where the water reacquired in excess of sales is used to restore natural assets. We propose a price discrimination water bank where the public institution leverages its monopsonistic (monopolistic) position to pay (ask) a price for every unit of water sold (bought) that matches the reserve price of every willing buyer (seller) in the market. Thus, both the consumer and producer surpluses are wholly transformed into public revenues, which reduces the budgetary burden of the environmental restoration without negatively impacting economic efficiency. We illustrate the performance of the price discrimination water bank under uncertainty through an hydroeconomic multi-model ensemble that is applied to the Upper Douro sub-basin (Spain). Our results show that the price discrimination water bank can achieve the same water reacquisition target as a conventional water bank (no price discrimination, no lease phase) at a significantly lower cost (59.5%–288.8% reduction) while achieving a significantly higher productive surplus (331%–570% increase).
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