Adapting to Less Water: Household Willingness to Pay for Decentralised Water Systems in Urban Australia

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1111-1125

  Tapsuwan, Sorada ^a   Burton, Michael ^b   Mankad, Aditi ^a   Tucker, David ^a   Greenhill, Murni ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Greywater; Policy; Rainfall; Rainwater; Rebate; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MEASURES; GREYWATER; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH; RAINWATER; REBATE; SUBSIDY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC POLICY; RAIN; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER CONSERVATION; WATERWORKS;

ECONOMICS;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC SPENDING; RAINWATER; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; WATER SUPPLY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84896715513     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0543-0     Document Type: Article

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