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...

The present day shortage of water, quite often termed, as water crisis is a human made disaster. Two major shifts in water management account for this disaster, the state emerging as the provider of water supply and the decline in the practice of technology of using rainwater. In a city like...

The Nostrum-DSS EU funded Co-ordination Action (CA) aims at contributing to the achievement of improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management within the Mediterranean Basin by establishing a network between the science, policy, and civil society spheres and through...

The state of water resources and the need for a comprehensive perspective -- The water economy -- Supply costs, demands and benefits -- Optimal water policy -- Water regulation -- Conjunctive use -- Case studies of regulatory interventions -- Economy-wide considerations of water management --...