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pricing policies play an important role in water demand management and its optimal allocation. determining proper water price leads to optimal allocation of water especially in agricultural consumptions. applying new subsidy targeting law in iran which insists on pricing water based on its supply cost, will effects considerably on water resource management in agriculture sector. so, in this stu...

Abstract There is little research on how resident perceptions of neighborhood unsafety develop over time and changes in these relate to decreasing crime rates. The present study analyzes explains trends perceived within the Dutch city Rotterdam, based survey register data collected years 2003–2017 ( N = 148.344, 62 neighborhoods). In addition crime, we also assess what extent (changes in) econo...

Survey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing the Medicare population. Using MCBS data from the 2000 Access to Care File, differences in the composition of the population enrolled in Medicare risk HMOs and of those in the same geographic areas who remained in fee-for-service (FFS) were examined. The results show that differences in the population reflect different rates of managed care enrollm...

Economic development in Africa is expected to increase levels of bushmeat hunting through rising demand for meat and improved transport infrastructure. However, few studies have tracked long-term changes in hunter behavior as a means of testing this prediction. We evaluated changes in hunter behavior in a rural community in Equatorial Guinea over a period of rapid national economic growth, duri...