1st Edition
Policy and Strategic Behaviour in Water Resource Management
368 Pages
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Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Water resource management throughout the world is a very complicated issue, involving various aspects and dimensions and a well-coordinated set of policies. A well-designed water policy is a multi-faceted concerted intervention, which could be specific to just one set of political and physical socio-economic conditions. A framework to analyse the interaction between policy design and... Read more
Foreword
1. Policy and Strategy in Water Resource Management: Can We Do Better When Both Are Coordinated?
Part I: Issues in Water Resource Policy
2. Issues in Water Resources Policy in Jordan
3. Water Scarcity, Quality and Environmental Protection Policies in Jordan
4. Water Management in Urbanizing, Arid Regions: Innovative Voluntary Transactions as a Response to Competing Water Claims
5. Groundwater Management Issues and Innovations in Arizona
6. Water Policy in Australia: The Impact of Change and Uncertainty
7. The Policy Challenge of Matching Environmental Water to Ecological Need
8. Water Management in Spain: An Example of Changing Paradigms
9. Policy Issues Related to Climate Change in Spain
Part II: Issues in Water Resource Strategy
10. Water Confl icts: Issues in International Water, Water Allocation and Water Pricing with Focus on Jordan
11. Good and Bad Forms of Participation in Water Management: Some Lessons from Brazil
12. Issues of Balancing International, Environmental and Equity Needs in a Situation of Water Scarcity
Part III: Interaction between Policy and Strategy
13. Modelling Negotiated Decision Making under Uncertainty: An Application to the Piave River Basin, Italy
14. Strategic Behaviour in Water Policy Negotiations: Lessons from California
15. Strategic Behaviour in Transboundary Water and Environmental Management
16. Climate Change and International Water: The Role of Strategic Alliances in Resource Allocation
Index
Biography
Ariel Dinar is Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Director of the Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside, US. He was formerly Lead Economist and Co-ordinator of Climate Change Research in the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC, US. Jose Albiac is a Senior Researcher at the Agrifood Research and Technology Centre (CITA - Government of Aragon), Zaragoza, Spain.
'Dinar and Albiac have produced a volume of enormous importance. The contributors represent a wealth of experience in the 'water game', and they share with us the conceptual and empirical insights pertinent to the crafting of coherent water policy in various settings and circumstances.' Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison 'Dinar and Albiac have brought together an excellent set of papers using a game theoretic approach to analyse how policies affect the strategies of water users and managers around the world. This book will be valuable reading for seminars in economics, political science, sociology, policy and environmental science.' Elinor Ostrom, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University
