Markets for water : potential and performance
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Markets for water : potential and performance
(Natural resource management and policy / editors, Ariel Dinar, David Zilberman)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs in water markets to be excessive.
Too often water trading is banned because the water resources have been developed with public funds and the water agencies do not want to lose control over water. There is also a concern that poor farmers or households will be disadvantaged by water trading.
These concerns about public resources and the poor are not very different from those that have been voiced in the past about land sales. The problem is that in many cases the poor already have limited access to resources, but this limit is not due to water trading. In fact, water trading is likely to expand the access to water for many small-scale farmers.
Markets for Water: Potential and Performance provides an analytical framework for water market establishment. It develops the necessary conditions for water markets and illustrates how they can improve both water management and economic efficiency. Finally, the book gives readers an up-to-date picture of what we have learned about water markets in a wide range of countries, from the US to Chile and India.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Authors. 1. Water Markets: Transaction Costs and Institutional Options
- K.W. Easter, et al. 2. Institutional Requisites for Efficient Water Markets
- M.L. Livingston. 3. Meeting Water Needs in Developing Countries: Resolving Issues in Establishing Tradable Water Rights
- M. Thobani. 4. The Application of Water Market Doctrines in Texas
- R.C. Griffin. 5. Water Markets in Colorado: Past Performance and Needed Changes
- C.W. Howe. 6. Negotiated Transactions as Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Water Bargaining in the U.S. West
- B.G. Colby. 7. Expected Transaction Costs and Incentives for Water Market Development
- S.O. Archibald, M.E. Renwick. 8. Spot Prices, Option Prices, and Water Markets: An Analysis of Emerging Markets in California
- R.E. Howitt. 9. Institutional and Organizational Arrangements for Water Markets in Chile
- R.R. Hearne. 10. Economic and Financial Returns from Chile's Water Markets
- R.R. Hearne, K.W. Easter. 11.Opportunities and Constraints to Improved Water Markets in Mexico
- R.R. Hearne. 12. Water Markets in India: Economic and Institutional Aspects
- R.M. Saleth. 13. Groundwater Markets in Pakistan: Institutional Development and Productivity Impacts
- R.S. Meinzen-Dick. 14. Economic Analysis of Water Markets in the Spanish Agricultural Sector: Can They Provide Substantial Benefits? A. Garrido. 15. Welfare Gains from Potential Water Markets in Alberta, Canada
- T.M. Horbulyk, L.J. Lo. 16. Development of Water Markets Using Experimental Economics
- A. Dinar, et al. 17. The Future of Water Markets: A Realistic Perspective
- K.W. Easter, et al. Authors Index. Subject Index.
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