Table of Contents

Contents:

1. Introduction
Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe

PART I CONCEPTS AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
2. Institutions and Water
William K. Jaeger

3. Sustainability Economics of Groundwater Usage and Management
Keith C. Knapp and Bradley Franklin

4. Concepts and Methods for Assessing Economic Impacts from Climate Change on Water Resources
Brian H. Hurd

PART II SECTORAL FOCUS
5. Agricultural Water Management
Sarah Ann Wheeler, Rosalind Bark, Adam Loch and Jeff Connor

6. Economic Analysis of Industrial Water Use
Steven Renzetti

7. Residential Water Management: An Economic Perspective on Policy Instruments
V. Kerry Smith and Min-Qiang (Kent) Zhao

8. The Use of Ecosystem Services Approach in Guiding Water Valuation and Management: Inland and Coastal Waters
Phoebe Koundouri and Osiel González Dávila

9. Incentivizing Interdependent Resource Management: Watersheds, Groundwater and Coastal Ecology
Kimberly Burnett, Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin, James Roumasset and Christopher A. Wada

10. Hydropower Management: Electricity Versus other Values
Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kriström

11. Water, Land Use and Environmental Aspects of Biofuel Production
David Zilberman and Scott Kaplan

12. The Economic Sustainability Paradigm and Fresh Water and Marine Fisheries Governance
R. Quentin Grafton and Dale Squires

PART III WATER SOURCES
13. Economics of Surface Water Management: A Review
Frank A. Ward

14. Wastewater Management and Reuse
Francesc Hernandez-Sancho and Maria Molinos-Senante

PART IV ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO VALUING WATER
15. Experimental Economics and Water Resources
Hernán Bejarano and James Shortle

16. Nonmarket Valuation and Water Resource Management
Richard T. Carson

PART V WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
17. Model-based Regulation of Nonpoint Source Emissions
Kenneth A. Baerenklau and Jingjing Wang

18. Salinity and Groundwater Management: A Hydro-economic Analysis
Kurt Schwabe and Keith C. Knapp

PART VI ADDRESSING WATER SCARCITY
19. Water Markets: From Theory to Practice (With Focus on the USA)
Kristiana Hansen

20. Water Conservation: Thinking Beyond the Tap
Diane DuPont

21. Conjunctive Management of Water Resources in Agriculture
Yacov Tsur

PART VII TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT
22. Joint Management of International Water Bodies under Scarcity and Variability
Ariel Dinar

23. The Economics of Transboundary Water Management
Erik Ansink and Harold Houba

PART VIII WATER IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
24. Water and Sanitation Economics: Reflections on Application to Developing Economies
Dale Whittington and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

25. Water and Growth in Developing Countries
Edward B. Barbier

Index

About the Author

Edited by Ariel Dinar, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy Emeritus, and Kurt Schwabe, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, US

Reviews

'The evidence is clear that water conflicts and water management continue to present profound obstacles to peace and sustainable livelihoods. Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe have produced a compelling collection of readings that offer important insights into this persistent problem. Chapters cover conceptual issues, competing uses, valuation, sectoral allocation, water markets, energy production, residential and industrial uses, ecosystems, water quality, and international (trans-boundary) concerns. This impressive volume will become an essential reference for years to come.'- Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US