Author: Michael B. HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Socio-economic Analysis of Water Resources
Author: Michael B. HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Drinking Water: A Socio-economic Analysis of Historical and Societal Variation
Author: Mark HarveyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317596552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired, and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings. From the taken-for-granted, all-purpose water, flowing out of taps in advanced economies to extreme inequalities of access to water of variable qualities, drinking water tells its own interesting story, but also reflects some of the centrally important characteristics of the state and economies of the different countries. From sparkling mineral water in Germany, to drinking water garages in Taiwan, from water tankers in Mexico City to street vendors in Delhi markets, comparisons are made to stretch our understanding of what we mean by ‘an economy’, quality, and property rights, of water. In addition, the study of socio-economics of drinking water provides a route into understanding interactions between polity, economy and nature. One of the major themes of the book is to analyse the ‘sociogenic’ nature of sustainability crises of economies of water in their environmental settings: epidemics, droughts, pollution, land subsidences and floods. Overall it develops an economic sociology, neo-Polanyian approach in a comparative and historical exploration of water for domestic consumption.
The Role of Water in Socio-economic Development
Author: William Edward CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Handbook for Socio-economic Analysis and Management of Water-supply-facilities
Author: Mohamed Tayeb KasmiA Handbook for Socio-economic Analysis and Management of Water-supply-facilities
Author: Mohamed Tayeb KasmiAnalysis and Modelling of Water Supply and Demand Under Climate Change, Land Use Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
Author: Katharina FrickePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319016105
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Located in a narrow grassland corridor between the semi-desert and a mountain range in Northwest China, the research area Urumqi Region is despite its semi-arid climate in a relatively favourable hydrological situation. The nearby mountains provide water for settlements and agriculture, making human development possible in the first place. Due to the development of agriculture, population and economy during the last sixty years and the increasing water consumption, a demand- and population-driven water scarcity exists today and is expected to aggravate. At the same time, the effects of climate change and land use transformations on the hydrological system and the water availability are uncertain. This study evaluates the recent and future situation by combining a hydrological water balance model for the simulation of the water supply based on scenarios of climate and land use change with a socio-economic model for projecting the future water demand including predicted growth of population and economy.
Bibliography on Socio-economic Aspects of Water Resources
Author: Battelle Memorial InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Water Resource Economics, second edition
Author: Ronald C. GriffinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262334038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.
Water in the Macro Economy
Author: Hynd BouhiaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351776983
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. Providing a new methodology to analyze the fundamental interrelationship between the sustainable management of a country’s water resources and the formulation of effective strategies for socio-economic development, this book captures the complex nature of water and its effect on a macro economy.
Author: Mohamed Tayeb Kasmi