Residential Water Use: Efficiency, Affordability, and Price Elasticity

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 275-291

  Hung, Ming Feng ^a   Chie, Bin Tzong ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Affordability; Agent based model; Cap and trade; Efficiency; Price elasticity; Residential water; Water pricing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMERCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ELASTICITY; EMISSION CONTROL; SIMULATION PLATFORM;

AFFORDABILITY; AGENT-BASED MODEL; CAP AND TRADE; PRICE ELASTICITY; WATER PRICING;

HOUSING;

DEMAND ELASTICITY; PRICE DYNAMICS; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 84871432350     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0185-z     Document Type: Article

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