Integrated hydro-ecological and economic modeling of environmental flows: Macquarie Marshes, Australia

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

“…Akter et al, 2014), and indeed different aspects of hydrology have been integrated using CCM (Falter et al, 2015). In sociohydrology specifically, Hu et al (2015) incorporates a multiagent simulation model with a physical groundwater model to try to understand declining water table levels.…”

Water Planning and Hydro-Climatic Change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

“…For example, a recent non-market valuation study in the MDB found that the estimated willingness to pay for environmental benefits associated with increased flows at the Macquarie Marshes is comparable to both the market price of water entitlements and the average gross value of irrigated agricultural production (Akter et al 2014).…”

The Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability of Brazil Applied to Holding Eletrobras on Hydroelectric Power Generation Segment

“…The non-application or the application of a limited form of financial responsibility coupled with social one can be regarded as irresponsible management in decision-making (Puaschunder, 2012;Tayşir & Pazarcık, 2013;Avram & Avasilcai, 2014;Kahreh, Babania, Tive, & Mirmehdi, 2014). The exchange of financial profits through mechanisms of repair in favor of bonuses, is a good technique to achieve the environmental objectives predefined because it can help these companies to expand their awareness and organization and simultaneously can develop appropriate procedures to cover the expansion of their profits and at the same time can contribute to the resolution of the socio-environmental issues (Blandford et al, 2014;Akter et al, 2014). The social and environmental repair mechanisms encourage the decision-makers to develop a responsible and compromised attitude and, in addition to contributing to a social and environmental education in organizational framework so that the procedures are planned and executed in a conscious and adequate manner .…”

“…Repair of environmental damage caused by human intervention is a mechanism on the motivation that includes some important tools for the sustainable development as are the cases of the polluter-payer principle (Luppi, Parisi, & Rajagopalan, 2012;Munir, 2013;Brandt & Svendsen, 2014), the principle of protective recipient (Ribas, 2013;De-Paulo, 2013), the trade-off or "compensatory exchange" (Meensel, Lauwers, Huylenbroeck, & Passel, 2010;J. Zhang, M. Fu, Z. Zhang, Tao, & W. Fu, 2014;Blandford, Gaasland, & Vårdal, 2014;Akter, Graftonb, & Merritt, 2014) and the tax incentives, among others (Nesta, Vona, & Nicolli, 2014;Martinez-Espiñeira, García-Valiñas, & Nauges, 2014;Allan, Lecca, Mcgregor, & Swales, 2014). Other motivational mechanisms include some programs that operate as incentives, for example, taking the cable to repair environment from the obtaintion of some benefits, such as the Ecological ICMS or Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services and the Go-Green or Income Tax, in order to benefit companies responsible and committed, not only with the preservation and maintenance, but also with the repair of the Brazilian environment (Riva et al, 2007;De-Paula, 2013).…”