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Decentralization an environmental policies: application to water resources
María Angeles García Valiñas
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Abstract
By means of a two-jurisdictional model, this paper analyses the optimal
division of environmental policymaking functions among the different government
levels, identifying the most appropriate level of decentralization in each case. The paper
focuses on water resources policies, with an application to Spanish regions during the
1996-2001 period. The estimation of an environmental quality-consumption
transformation function allows the implementation of a simulation to find the most
efficient policies in the context of water resources.