1st Edition
Liquid Assets An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Liquid Assets shows that the common view of water as an inevitable cause of future wars is neither rational nor necessary. Typically, two or more parties with claim to the same water sources are thought to play a zero-sum game with each side placing a high emotional and political value over the ownership of the water. However, Franklin Fisher and his coauthors demonstrate that when disputes in... Read more
Part 1 General Methodology; Chapter 1 Water and Economics; Chapter 2 The Water Allocation Systern Model:; Chapter 3 Crop Choice and Agricultural Demand for Water: Agricultural Submodel; Chapter 4 International Conflicts: Promoting Cooperation; Part 2 Results for lsrael, Palestine, and Jordan; issue A Note on Some Sensitive Issues; Chapter 5 Results for lsrael; Chapter 6 Results for Palestine; Chapter 7 Results for Jordan; Chapter 8 The Value of Cooperation;
Biography
Franklin M. Fisher is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Annette Huber-Lee is the senior research director at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Tellus Institute.
'Liquid Assets shows where economics can be useful to the profoundly political aspects of water conflicts, but it is not authoritarian about what should be done. It is, rather, illustrative of what could be done, and why it might make sense to do it that way. I can see the book playing a significant role if and when Israel, Palestine, and Jordan are able to move forward with a plan that will bring peace and harmony.' Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin, Madison
