Frontiers in Water Resource Economics (Natural Resource Management and Policy)

✍ Scribed by Renan-Ulrich Goetz, Dolors Berga

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume focuses on recent methodological advanced within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water issues. It identifies five areas of particular importance -- asymmetric information and game theory, uncertainty, space, water quality, and production and technology adoption. Individual chapters address issues such as allocation of water and water as a pubic good; the influence of weather variability, network failures, and input price risk; the impact of heterogeneity of the land on water use efficiency; quality of water and pollution, and the potential substitutions between capital and water via new technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Application of stochastic cooperative games in water resources......Page 19
Incentives and the search for unknown resources such as water......Page 39
Risk aversion and gains from water trading under uncertain water availability......Page 61
Dynamic uncertainty and the pricing of natural monopolies......Page 87
Price risk and the diffusion of conservation technology......Page 107
Optimal management of groundwater over space and time......Page 127
Nonpoint source pollution in a spatial intertemporal context......Page 155
Transboundary water management along the U.S.-Mexico border......Page 171
Irrigation, water quality and water rights in the Murray DarHng Basin, Australia......Page 195
Economic analysis of green payments to protect water quality......Page 218
Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater with quality considerations......Page 244
The impact of recovering irrigation water losses on the choice of irrigation technology with heterogeneous land quality and different crops......Page 260
Precision farming in cotton......Page 273