Water management for irrigation requires suitable policy tools able to meet social objectives and private behaviour. The legal framework in the EU is today faced with the new water framework directive (60/2000), that sets up new criteria for water management, regulation and pricing. Among other...

The management of water resources is today one of the main issues in most countries. In Italy, as in many other European countries, irrigation is the main sector using water and hence it is at the centre of the water policy agenda. Water management for irrigation requires suitable policy tools...

This paper identifies information that may be important in determining the benefits ofpreventing toxic water contamination (or equivalently cost of nonaction) when a given toxificationoccurs. It attempts to identify information and behavior issues that need to be considered when weestimate...