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1 Kennedy, P. 1998. A guide to econometrics. 4th ed. Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press. xiii, 468p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 330.015195 G000 KEN Record No: H029266)
2 Levitt, S. D.; Dubner, S. J. 2005. Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins. 320p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 330 G000 LEV Record No: H040369)
3 Debaere, P.; Kapral, A. 2021. The potential of the private sector in combating water scarcity: the economics. Water Security, 13:100090. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2021.100090]
Water scarcity ; Private sector ; Economics ; Public-private partnerships ; Investment ; Monopolies ; Water stress ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water pricing ; Infrastructure ; Communities ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050567)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312421000079/pdfft?md5=b40abfeea6b4edcf13d10e23a9e7acb0&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312421000079-main.pdf
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050567.pdf
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Water scarcity is increasing across the globe. We discuss how the private sector and private investment can assist in the fight against water scarcity, especially in advanced and middle-income economies. We first lay out from an economic perspective why local, regional, and national governments have traditionally played an outsized role in providing water security. We next describe a whole set of possible roles for the private sector, ranging from a fully privatized water sector to more limited public–private partnerships (PPPs), corporate social responsibility (CSR), and impact investment that may take place independent of the public sector. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings of an argument for greater private involvement emerge from reassessing the traditional view of the water sector as a natural monopoly with increasing returns to scale, as well as from contract theory that emphasizes how carefully written contracts imply control but do not require public ownership at all times. Rising water scarcity and water infrastructures badly in need of an upgrade in many places point to public institutions and societies not meeting the social and environmental challenge, which opens the door for private initiatives in the form of corporate social responsibility and impact investing.
4 Martin, M. A.; Boakye, E. A.; Boyd, E.; Broadgate, W.; Bustamante, M.; Canadell, J. G.; Carr, E. R.; Chu, E. K.; Cleugh, H.; Csevar, S.; Daoudy, M.; de Bremond, A.; Dhimal, M.; Ebi, K. L.; Edwards, C.; Fuss, S.; Girardin, M. P.; Glavovic, B.; Hebden, S.; Hirota, M.; Hsu, H.-H.; Huq, S.; Ingold, K.; Johannessen, O. M.; Kameyama, Y.; Kumarasinghe, N.; Langendijk, G. S.; Lissner, T.; Lwasa, S.; Machalaba, C.; Maltais, A.; Mathai, M. V.; Mbow, C.; McNamara, K. E.; Mukherji, Aditi; Murray, V.; Mysiak, J.; Okereke, C.; Ospina, D.; Otto, F.; Prakash, A.; Pulhin, J. M.; Raju, E.; Redman, A.; Rigaud, K. K.; Rockstrom, J.; Roy, J.; Schipper, E. L. F.; Schlosser, P.; Schulz, K. A.; Schumacher, K.; Schwarz, L.; Scown, M.; Sedova, B.; Siddiqui, T. A.; Singh, C.; Sioen, G. B.; Stammer, D.; Steinert, N. J.; Suk, S.; Sutton, R.; Thalheimer, L.; van Aalst, M.; van der Geest, K.; Zhao, Z. J. 2022. Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5(e20):1-20. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.17]
Climate change adaptation ; Climate change mitigation ; Vulnerability ; Climate resilience ; Global warming ; Emission ; Sustainable land use ; Private sector ; Water ; Energy ; Foods ; Ecology ; Biodiversity ; Economics ; Policies ; Governance ; Health ; Finance ; Gender ; Inclusion ; Social aspects ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051580)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62C90D59C9F9890791B64762EAA06B8D/S2059479822000175a.pdf/ten-new-insights-in-climate-science-2022.pdf
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Non-technical summary:
We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Technical summary:
We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Social media summary:
Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Technical summary:
We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C.
Social media summary:
Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
5 Rodriguez, R. A. S.; Carril, L. R. F. 2024. Climate-resilient development in developing countries. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 66:101391. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101391]
Climate resilience ; Development ; Developing countries ; Political aspects ; Economics ; Policies ; Sustainable development ; Vulnerability ; Mitigation ; Adaptation ; Decision making ; Risk reduction ; Financing
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052456)
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Fostering climate-resilient development (CRD) in developing countries can provide opportunities to create efficient, equitable, and inclusive responses to climate change. However, we are concerned that CRD could become a one-size-fits-all approach in developing countries, despite the IPCC’s recognition that this concept can have multiple trajectories. We analyzed contributions in the international literature that provide information on the features needed to transform CRD from an attractive concept to an operational approach in these countries. We focus on shortcomings and barriers in adaptation and mitigation actions and finance to better understand the challenges CRD needs to address, and we stress the importance of political economy to successfully implement CRD.
6 Haddad, B. M.; Solomon, B. D. 2024. Ecological economics as the science of sustainability and transformation: integrating entropy, sustainable scale, and justice. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, 3(2):e0000098. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000098]
Ecological footprint ; Economics ; Economic activities ; Economic growth ; Natural capital ; Sustainability ; Justice ; Transformation ; Entropy
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052624)
https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000098&type=printable
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Ecological economics, developed in the late 1980s, came to be known as the multi- and transdisciplinary science of sustainability. Since that time, it has blended basic and applied research with the intention of both informing and bringing change to environmental policy, governance, and society. However, many conventional economists have questioned its originality and contributions. This paper begins by clarifying the foundational perspectives of ecological economics that it engages an economy embedded in both real and limited ecosystems as well as socially constructed power relations. Herman Daly, a founder of the field, expanded on Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s entropy economics by focusing on a quantifiable sustainable scale of the economy and achieving justice in the control and distribution of economic benefits. He called for both quantitative analyses of economic scale and discursive approaches to a just distribution. The paper then discusses how the terms entropy, scale, and justice are used and interact in the literature, illustrated by some of the key debates in the field involving the Ecological Footprint, substitutability of natural and manufactured capital, and the growth—“agrowth”—degrowth debate. The debates also illustrate the potential for the field to influence policy. Ecological economics as the science of both sustainability and transformation can deploy numerous concepts and tools to provide insights on how to illuminate and solve some of the most pressing problems of the Anthropocene.
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