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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Water Resources Management
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 40.00How are the economic values of water accounted for in policy and project appraisal? This important new book aims to give an overview of the state-of-the-art in Cost?Benefit Analysis (CBA) in water resources management throughout Europe and North America, along with an examination of current applications. more...
Water Resource Economics and Policy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 40.00?Douglass Shaw?s Water Resource Economics and Policy is a timely and useful offering, filling an important void in MS and Post bac texts. The beginning chapters provide background in legal and economic theory considerations. Each is followed up in the book with specific regulatory and institutional examples as well as citations and explanations of... more...
The Meaning of Water
Bloomsbury Publishing 2004; US$ 120.95Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next dec ade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous... more...
Managing Water as an Economic Resource
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations is straining authorities and governments to the limit as the economic and environmental costs of new supply sources escalate and wasteful supply, delivery and consumption systems persist.... more...
Agua
International Development Research Centre 2004; US$ 15.00Esta publicación sintetiza los resultados de tres décadas de investigación apoyada por el IDRC sobre abastecimiento de agua. Demuestra que algunas de las respuestas de mayor peso a la problemática de la escasez de agua se han implementado a nivel local ?en hogares, campos agrícolas, aldeas y vecindarios urbanos. Centrándose no sólo en los resultados... more...
The Economics of Water Management in Southern Africa
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Presents a tool for water management - water resource accounting - which significantly advances the economic analysis of water. Based on the UN's handbook for environmental accounting, this book describes the implementation and policy application of water accounts in three African countries, and discusses how they have been used by water managers. more...
Water Institutions
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.99This study is a major first attempt to address the many issues associated with the institutional innovation in water resource management comprehensively and in depth. It is a global survey and assessment of the structure, evolution, and performance of water institutions in regional, national, and international settings. It includes: an analysis and... more...
Water Resources Systems Planning and Management
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 193.00This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured... more...
Water Resources in the Middle East
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99Presents various approaches to the resolution of the severe water resources shortages and issues of the Middle East, with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian water conflicts. This book considers the various geopolitical, environmental, legal, economic and water resources management approaches to improve cooperation and solve the problems. more...
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
International Development Research Centre 2008; US$ 46.00Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than 2 billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed that water should be considered to be a human... more...









