Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge
Water is a vital resource for citizens’ economic and social development. However, the uses to which it can be put often conflict. Possible solutions to mitigate disputes involve political options, scarce economic resources, and the search for mechanisms to ensure its adequate allocation. For over ha...
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| author | Amador Durán-Sánchez María de la Cruz del Río-Rama José Álvarez-García Mᵃ Teresa Cabezas-Hernández |
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| description | Water is a vital resource for citizens’ economic and social development. However, the uses to which it can be put often conflict. Possible solutions to mitigate disputes involve political options, scarce economic resources, and the search for mechanisms to ensure its adequate allocation. For over half a century, countries such as Australia, Spain, Chile, and the western states of the United States have been considering the possibility of using markets for rights of use. They are defined as formal or informal trading exchanges of rights, whose aim is to improve efficiency, ensure security of supply, and make allocations more flexible. In this context, the aim of this article is to show a current picture of the scientific production related to Water Markets using the comparative bibliometric study of the documents indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases as a tool. The advanced search of relevant terms resulted in the retrieval of 261 papers from WoS and 305 from Scopus, with a time limit of 2020, which make up the ad hoc basis of the analysis. From this basis, it can be deduced that the subject of the Water Market has been present in the scientific literature on a more or less regular basis since the beginning of the 1990s. However, it has emerged as a topical issue in recent years, being in a phase of exponential growth, which means that interest in the area is likely to continue in the coming years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf6de847f0e14e34b3060458256e61f62023-11-23T19:29:30ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412022-06-011412190710.3390/w14121907Water Markets: Mapping Scientific KnowledgeAmador Durán-Sánchez0María de la Cruz del Río-Rama1José Álvarez-García2Mᵃ Teresa Cabezas-Hernández3Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Instituto Universitario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible (INTERRA), Facultad de Empresa Finanzas y Turismo, Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, SpainBusiness Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, SpainDepartamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Instituto Universitario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible (INTERRA), Facultad de Empresa Finanzas y Turismo, Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, SpainDepartamento de Derecho Público, Instituto Universitario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible (INTERRA), Facultad de Empresa Finanzas y Turismo, Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, SpainWater is a vital resource for citizens’ economic and social development. However, the uses to which it can be put often conflict. Possible solutions to mitigate disputes involve political options, scarce economic resources, and the search for mechanisms to ensure its adequate allocation. For over half a century, countries such as Australia, Spain, Chile, and the western states of the United States have been considering the possibility of using markets for rights of use. They are defined as formal or informal trading exchanges of rights, whose aim is to improve efficiency, ensure security of supply, and make allocations more flexible. In this context, the aim of this article is to show a current picture of the scientific production related to Water Markets using the comparative bibliometric study of the documents indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases as a tool. The advanced search of relevant terms resulted in the retrieval of 261 papers from WoS and 305 from Scopus, with a time limit of 2020, which make up the ad hoc basis of the analysis. From this basis, it can be deduced that the subject of the Water Market has been present in the scientific literature on a more or less regular basis since the beginning of the 1990s. However, it has emerged as a topical issue in recent years, being in a phase of exponential growth, which means that interest in the area is likely to continue in the coming years.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/12/1907water marketbibliometric studyWoSScopuscoverageoverlap |
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| title | Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge |
| title_full | Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge |
| title_fullStr | Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge |
| title_short | Water Markets: Mapping Scientific Knowledge |
| title_sort | water markets mapping scientific knowledge |
| topic | water market bibliometric study WoS Scopus coverage overlap |
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