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Water Markets for the 21st Century - What Have We Learned? (Hardcover, 2014 ed.) Loot Price: R5,106
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Water Markets for the 21st Century - What Have We Learned? (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): K.William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang

Water Markets for the 21st Century - What Have We Learned? (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

K.William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang

Series: Global Issues in Water Policy, 11

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This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs. The book examines markets in seven countries and three different U.S. states, ranging from village-level water markets in Oman to basin wide formal water markets in Australia's Murray-Darling River basin.

Introductory chapters on the background of water markets and on transaction costs and policy design are followed by chapter length discussion of water markets as an adaptive response to climate change and of supply reliability in a changing climate. Case studies describe a variety of facets of the design and function of markets around the world: California, Chile, Spain, Oman, Australia, Canada, India and China.

In analyzing these real-world examples of markets, the contributors explore water rights and trading of rights between agricultural and urban sectors and the principles and function of option markets. They discuss different sized approaches, from large scale, ministry-level administration of markets to informal arrangements among farmers in the same village, or groups of villages which allocate water without large investment in management and infrastructure. Discussion includes questions of why water market practices have not expanded more rapidly in arid places.

The book discusses mechanisms for resolving conflicts between water rights holders as well as between water right holders and third parties impacted by water trades and whether or not public ownership of water rights or use rights should trump private ownership and under what condition. Also covered are new and expanding categories of water use, beyond human consumption, agriculture and industry to new technologies ranging from extracting natural gas from shale to producing biofuels.

The book concludes with suggestions for future water markets and offers a realistic picture of how they might change water use and distribution practices going forward.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Global Issues in Water Policy, 11
Release date: August 2014
First published: 2014
Editors: K.William Easter • Qiuqiong Huang
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 341
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-9401790802
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Environment law
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Water supply & treatment > General
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LSN: 9401790809
Barcode: 9789401790802

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