Abstract
AbstractA better understanding of the relative importance of factors related to climate change and to changes associated with economic growth would serve to inform water policy and to focus scarce public resources on anticipated problems arising from distinct sources of changes in water demand. This article investigates the determinants of residential water consumption in Chile, a developing country that has seen noteworthy changes in incomes, household size, poverty rates and levels of urbanization, and which is projected to experience significant climatic but varied changes, depending on the region of the country. Panel data for 1998-2010 at the municipal level is used to analyze the sensitivity of residential water demand to climate and development-related factors. In the case of Chile, the effect on water consumption of these development-related changes is estimated to be several times that of the changes associated with climate projections for 50 to 80 years in the future.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,General Environmental Science,Development
Reference48 articles.
1. Impacts of water scarcity on socio-economic development: A case study of Gaotai County, China
2. AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY OF RESIDENTIAL WATER DEMAND MODELLING
3. World Bank (2011) Chile. Diagnóstico de la Gestión de los Recursos Hídricos. Departamento de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Región para América Latina y el Caribe. Chile, 88 pp. Available at http://www.dga.cl/eventos/DiagnosticogestionderecursoshidricosenChile_BancoMundial.pdf (in Spanish).
4. WaterAid (2015). It's no joke: the state of the world's toilets 2015. Available at https://www.wateraid.org/.
5. Climate change impacts on the hydrology of a snowmelt driven basin in semiarid Chile
Cited by
11 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献