The Economics of Water Resources
The Economics of Water Resources Population growth and rising living standards, on the one hand, and changing climate, on the other hand, have exacerbated water scarcity worldwide. A coherent water…
Specifikacia The Economics of Water Resources
The Economics of Water Resources
Population growth and rising living standards, on the one hand, and changing climate, on the other hand, have exacerbated water scarcity worldwide. A coherent water policy must look at the water economy as a whole and apply a comprehensive approach to policy interventions. To address this problem, policymakers need to take a wide view of the water economy - a complex structure involving environmental, social, economic, legal, and institutional aspects.
The book discusses water resource management within a comprehensive framework that integrates the different, yet highly entwined, elements of a water economy. Written by two of the world's leading scholars on economics of water, this is the first graduate-level textbook on the topic. It follows the steps needed to develop a well-designed set of policies based on detailed analyses of intervention measures, using multi-sectoral and