"Wem gehört das Wasser?" sucht über eine phänomenologische Annäherung an das Wasser das Einverständnis des Betrachters, dass ein Element, welches sich ständig im Fluss befindet, sich jedem Besitzanspruch entzieht, sei er politisch oder ökonomisch. Unter ökonomischen, ökologischen,...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of water reform and water sector performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economy. It integrates institutional theory with resource economics, and set against an exhaustive review of the theoretical and...

1. Introduction to Groundwater Economic Analysis2. Cost, Benefit, Price and Value of Groundwater in Market and Nonmarket Settings3. Groundwater Policy and Projects4. Economic Analysis of Groundwater Policy and Projects5. Life-Cycle Cost-Benefit Analysis6. Transboundary, International and Climate...

The Institutional Economics of Water evaluates water institutional reform and water sector performance from an institutional economics and political economy perspective. Against an exhaustive review of the theoretical and empirical literature on institution and performance both in general and in...

1. Water challenge : an institutional diagnosis -- 2. Understanding institutions : nature, performance, and change -- 3. Existing literature : approaches, attempts, and limitations -- 4. Evaluating institutional linkages : towards an alternative methodology -- 5. Analytical framework and...