[PDF] Water Transfers Economic Efficiency And Alternative Institutions eBook

Author : Mary E. Renwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351159275

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Water is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in many parts of the world. Population growth plus a growing appetite for larger quantities of cheap water quality as a result of urban, industrial, and agricultural pollution coupled with increasing environmental demands have further reduced usable suppliers. This book brings together thirty of the best economic articles addressing water scarcity issues within the US and Mexico. By touching on a number of different issues, this volume clearly articulates the need for improving existing institutional arrangements as well as for developing new arrangements to address growing water scarcity problems.

Author : Todd Green
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 3038420123

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Policy, Productivity and Economic Efficiency" that was published in Water

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309045282

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The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.

Author : R. Maria Saleth
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821356562

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This publication examines issues of water sector reform and performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economic studies. The authors develop an alternative quantitative assessment methodology based on the principle of 'institutional ecology', as well as data collected from 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world using a cross-country review of recent water sector reforms within an institutional transaction cost framework.

Author : Randy Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351531360

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Water is becoming increasingly scarce. If recent usage trends continue, shortages are inevitable. Aquanomics discusses some of the instruments and policies that may be implemented to postpone, or even avoid, the onset of water crises. These policies include establishing secure and transferable private water rights and extending these rights to uses that traditionally have not been allowed, including altering in-stream flows and ecosystem functions. The editors argue that such policies will help maximize water quantity and quality as water becomes scarcer and more valuable. Aquanomics contains many examples of how this is being accomplished, particularly in the formation of water markets and market-like exchanges of water rights.Many observers see calamity ahead unless water supplies are harnessed and effectively conserved, and unless water quality can be improved. It is also clear that declining water quality is a serious problem in much of the world, as increasing human activities induce high levels of water degradation. Those who voice these concerns, argue the contributors to this volume, fail to consider the forces for improvement inherent in market political-economic systems that can address water issues. The contributors see water quality in economically advanced countries as improving, and they believe this establishes the validity of market-based approaches.