The economics of water demands
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The economics of water demands
(Natural resource management and policy / editors, Ariel Dinar, David Zilberman)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  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
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.[163]-188) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears. I began that paper by pointing to the growing importance of demand-side considerations in water resources: "The provision of potable water is one of government's oldest functions with evidence of this activity stretching back thousands of years. During much of that time, water demands were taken as exogenously given and the principle task of authorities was defined as an engineering one: how to supply a given quantity of water at least cost. In recent years, however, concerns have arisen from observations of excessive water use, degraded water quality and continued inadequate service for many, especially the very poor. As a result of these and other concerns, there is a growing effort to view water resource allocation from a perspective that incorporates consumers' preferences along with supply constraints into management plans. " (Renzetti, 2000, p. 123). The purpose of this volume is to examine, in greater detail than was possible in that article, what is known regarding the economic characteristics of the demand for water. Thus, this book is meant to be an extended critical review of the state of the art.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Section A: Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. The State of Water Use.
Section B: Water Demands. 3. Residential Water Demands. 4. Commercial and Industrial Water Demands. 5. Agricultural Water Demands. 6. The Demand for Sewage Disposal and Waste Assimilation. 7. Water Demand in Low-Income Countries.
Section C: The Value of Water Use. 8. Value of Water in Extractive Uses. 9. Value of Water in Non-Extractive Uses.
Section D: Water Demand Management. 10. Water Demand Management. 11. Water Demand Forecasting.
Section E: Conclusions. 12. Conclusions.
References. Endnotes. Index.
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