Water Consumption and Long-Run Urban Development: The Case of Milan

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Analyses of long run consumption series are rare in literature. We study the evolution of water consumption in Milan in the twentieth century. The objective is twofold: on one side, the univariate analysis tries both to assess the impact of relevant socio-economic and environmental changes on water consumption in Milan and verify if consumers have deeply rooted consumption habits. On the other side, the multivariate analysis is used to identify the socio-economic factors that are relevant in explaining consumption evolution. Results indicate both that water users have well entrenched consumption habits and that population, climate and economic structure behave more similarly, in Euclidean terms, to water consumption than to other economic and social variables.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 109.2005

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes ; Econometric and Statistical Methods: Other
• Subject: Urban consumption ; Long-run ; Development ; Environmental changes ; Wasserversorgung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Umweltbelastung ; Mailand

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nosvelli, Mario ; Musolesi, Antonio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74289
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