Author: Lisa Marie PfeifferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Economics of Water Resources
Author: Mary E. RenwickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351159267
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
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.
Three Essays on the Economics of Groundwater Extraction for Agriculture
Author: Lisa Marie PfeifferSelected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Essays on the Economic Role of Government
Author: Warren J. SamuelsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349123749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This collection of articles examines the fundamental non-ideological conceptions and relationships consutituting the economic role of government, especially in market economies. The fundamental concepts include the nature of economic policy and the problem of order in economic affairs.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Three Essays on Water Service
Author: Hiba AhmedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : User charges
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Handbook of Environmental Economics
Author: Karl-Goran MalerPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080457495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Much applied environmental economics is concerned with the valuation of changes in environmental quality. Obtaining reliable valuation estimates requires attention to theoretical and econometric issues that are often quite subtle. Volume 2 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics presents both the theory and the practice of environmental valuation. It synthesizes the vast literature that has accumulated since the publication of the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics two decades ago. It includes chapters on individual valuation methods written by researchers responsible for fundamental advances in those methods. It also includes cross-cutting chapters that deal with aspects of welfare theory, uncertainty, experimental methods, and public health that are pertinent to valuation. Throughout the volume, attention is paid to research and policy issues that arise not only in high-income countries, where most of the theory and econometrics that underlie applied valuation methods have been developed, but also in poorer parts of the world. The volume provides a state-of-the-art reference for scholars and practitioners alike.
Assessing Water Rights in China
Author: Yahua WangPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 981105083X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China’s water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics. It highlights the basic theory of water rights, with a view to helping Chinese policymakers acquire a deeper understanding of water rights and the need for a reform program in the long-term development of water-poor China. To do so, it draws on three main sources: Cheung SNS’s “Economic Explanation”, Douglas C. North’s “New Economic History” and Ray Huang’s “Macro History”. The book makes two essential contributions: it elaborates the hierarchical water governance structure in China, which originated in the Qin Dynasty that unified the country 2000 years ago and has been employed without interruption ever since; further, it constructs a choice model for water governance structures and advances the logic of making structural choices with minimum transaction costs under constraint conditions, while also explaining the inherent nature of China’s choice for the hierarchical structure from the perspectives of management cost and cooperation cost. As such, the book enriches and builds on the theories of the “water governance” school represented by Karl Marx, Karl Wittfogel and Ray Huang, laying the foundation for the further study of water rights theory in contemporary China.
Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics
Author: V. Kerry SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317388186
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book, first published in 1988, provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla, one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics, and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems and theoretical issues and resource policies and the practice of applied welfare economics. This title will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies.