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"Resource Blessing": R&D and Sweet Water Deficit
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2010-11-25-40
Abstract
Shortening of available volumes of a natural resource can become an engine for the development of new technologies, which could help using it more effectively. The article considers the case of Israel - the state that encounters sweet water deficit. Accessible average volume of this resource is in some sense random and hard to predict. Ordinary pricing mechanisms are difficult to implement due to political and social considerations. A range of measures has made private firms use an already existing intellectual resource to develop R&D aiming to make water use more effective. This can be viewed as a process of efficient substituting a deficit natural resource with a non-deficit intellectual one.
About the Authors
M. Levin
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
N. Shilova
National Research University Higher School of Economics; Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Levin M., Shilova N. "Resource Blessing": R&D and Sweet Water Deficit. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2010;(11):25-40. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2010-11-25-40
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