Values and Cost Allocations of Surface Water Use and Treatment
Author : Richard A. Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Water quality management
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Author : Richard A. Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Water quality management
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Author : Gail M. Leighton
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Forest soils
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Author : Water Resources Scientific Information Center
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Water resources development
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1969
Category : System analysis
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Author : Committee on Valuing Ground Water
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309523621
Because water in the United State has not been traded in markets, there is no meaningful estimate of what it would cost if it were traded. But failing to establish ground water's value--for in situ uses such as sustaining wetlands as well as for extractive uses such as agriculture--will lead to continued overuse and degradation of the nation's aquifers. In Valuing Ground Water an interdisciplinary committee integrates the latest economic, legal, and physical knowledge about ground water and methods for valuing this resource, making it comprehensible to decisionmakers involved in Superfund cleanup efforts, local wellhead protection programs, water allocation, and other water-related management issues. Using the concept of total economic value, this volume provides a framework for calculating the economic value of ground water and evaluating tradeoffs between competing uses of it. Included are seven case studies where ground-water valuation has been or could be used in decisionmaking. The committee examines trends in ground-water management, factors that contribute to its value, and issues surrounding ground-water allocation and legal rights to its use. The book discusses economic valuation of natural resources and reviews several valuation methods. Presenting conclusions, recommendations, and research priorities, Valuing Ground Water will be of interest to those concerned about ground-water issues: policymakers, regulators, economists, attorneys, researchers, resource managers, and environmental advocates.
Author : Ronald C. Griffin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262334038
Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts. Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this text offers a comprehensive development of water resource economics that is accessible to engineers and natural scientists as well as to economists. The goal is to build a practical platform for understanding and performing economic analysis using both theoretical and empirical tools. Familiarity with microeconomics or natural resource economics is helpful, but all the economics needed is presented and developed progressively in the text. The book focuses on the scarcity of water quantity (rather than on water quality). The author presents the economic theory of resource allocation, recognizing the peculiarities imposed by water, and then goes on to treat a range of subjects including conservation, groundwater depletion, water law, policy analysis, cost–benefit analysis, water marketing, privatization, and demand and supply estimation. Added features of this updated edition include a new chapter on water scarcity risk (with climate change and necessary risk tools introduced progressively) and new risk-attentive material elsewhere in the text; sharper treatment of block rates and pricing doctrine; expanded attention to contemporary literature and issues; and new appendixes on input–output analysis, water footprinting and virtual water, and cost allocation. Each chapter ends with a summary and exercises.
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Page : 884 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Hydrology
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Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Abastecimiento de agua
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Author : Daniel P. Loucks
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 1973
Category : System analysis
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Author : Nicolas Spulber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401583218
The purpose of this book is to develop a general economic model which integrates the quantity and quality issues of water resource management and to provide, along with a detailed criticism of the policy instruments now in use, alternative proposals concerning the efficient allocation and distribution of water. In particular we treat water as a multi-product commodity where the market plays a major role in determining water quality-discriminant pricing and its value to the user. We examine the process of moving from administrative allocation and regulation to privatization of the water industry as the key element in promoting effective competition and in providing economic incentives for greater efficiency. Water quantity and quality, considered independently of each other, have been the subject of numerous studies during the last twenty years. Let us recall briefly the most outstanding among them. A variety of models have been constructed concerning the optimal scheduling and sequence of water-supply projects: dynamic programming for solving multi-bjective functions in water resource development; planning models for coordinating regional water-resource supply and demand, etc. Other studies have devised water-quality management models, including multi-period design of regional or municipal wastewater systems; cost-allocation methods to induce effluent dischargers to participate in regional water systems; models to predict the quality of effluent (in particular, whether it meets certain established standards); models for finding optimal waste-removal policies at each of the polluting sources, and so on.