The Price of Water. Studies in Water Resource Economics and Management
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Author(s): S. Merrett
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 1843390817
Format: hardback
154pp
Price: £60.00, $108.00, €84
Review Date: 26 July 2005
Review: This volume comprises 14 papers, previously published in technical journals between 1999 and 2004, on the economics and management of water resources. They include both instream water and flows of water that has been extracted from instream water, then stored, distributed to water users and discharged back into the instream medium. Chapters cover: the regional water balance statement; integrated water resource management and the hydrosocial balance; farm-level drought management and irrigation in the UK; economic instruments in drought management; ‘Virtual water’ and Occam’s razor; virtual water and the Kyoto consensus; catchment water deficits in the 21st century; the urban marker for farmers’ water rights; the demand for water; the political economy of water abstraction charges; the domestic demand for water in Africa; households’ willingness to pay for water in low-income countries; and industrial effluent policy.