This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water … management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in …-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors. The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric …

This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How … to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services. How should … decisions be made between water use for electricity generation or for environmental and recreational benefits? The authors …

1. Water for Irrigation: An overview -- 2. Externality in Irrigation -- 3. Unidirectional and Reciprocal externality in … irrigation -- 4. Sand Mining Externality -- 5. Relationship between rainfall and recharge -- 6. Marginal productivity of Water … -- 7. Costing water for irrigation -- 8. Locating interference and valuing water -- 9. Demand side economics of Micro …

Mexico is currently facing severe problems with water availability, wastage and contamination. The most contaminated … and over-exploited water resources are concentrated in the most populated areas of the country, where water is scarcer and … that water quality is a determining factor in public health and ecosystems. The significant growth in population and …

comprehensive four-year study, entailing more than 60 in-depth interviews and an extensive survey of over 300 water policy … water resources and environmental management, it delivers universally relevant conclusions on affecting policy change. In … areas of policy change, sustainability, and water management …

This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both … the good and the bad. Backed by real life stories of water privatization in action, author Manuel Schiffler presents a … nuanced picture free of spin or fear mongering. Inside, readers will find a detailed analysis of the multiple forms of water …

Introduction -- PART I -- Mekong Delta Water Resources and Food Security -- Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Water resources … been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development … of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food …

Focuses on methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be … applied to the economics of water issues. This book identifies five areas of particular importance - asymmetric information … and game theory, uncertainty, space, water quality, and production and technology adoption …

The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It … contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use …