Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction R. Quentin Grafton
PART I ENVIRONMENTAL AND IN-STREAM FLOWS
1. Robert P. Berrens, Philip Ganderton and Carol L. Silva (1996),
‘Valuing the Protection of Minimum Instream Flows in New
Mexico’
2. Bonnie G. Colby (1989), ‘Estimating the Value of Water in
Alternative Uses’
3. John T. Daubert and Robert A. Young (1981), ‘Recreational
Demands for Maintaining Instream Flows: A Contingent Valuation
Approach’
4. John W. Duffield, Christopher J. Neher and Thomas C. Brown
(1992), ‘Recreation Benefits of Instream Flow: Application to
Montana’s Big Hole and Bitterroot Rivers’
5. LeRoy T. Hansen and Arne Hallam (1991), ‘National Estimates of
the Recreational Value of Streamflow’
6. Clay Landry (1998), ‘Market Transfers of Water for Environmental
Protection in the Western United States’
7. John Loomis and Joseph Cooper (1990), ‘Economic Benefits of
Instream Flow to Fisheries: A Case Study of California’s Feather
River’
8. Benjamin M. Simon (1998), ‘Federal Acquisition of Water Through
Voluntary Transactions for Environmental Purposes’
9. Frank A. Ward (1987), ‘Economics of Water Allocation to Instream
Uses in a Fully Appropriated River Basin: Evidence From a New
Mexico Wild River’
10. David B. Willis and Norman K. Whittlesey (1998), ‘Water
Management Policies for Streamflow Augmentation in an Irrigated
River Basin’
PART II ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION
11. Charles W. Abdalla, Brian A. Roach and Donald J. Epp (1992),
‘Valuing Environmental Quality Changes Using Averting Expenditures:
An Application to Groundwater Contamination’
12. Richard T. Carson and Robert Cameron Mitchell (1993), ‘The
Value of Clean Water: The Public’s Willingness to Pay for Boatable,
Fishable, and Swimmable Quality Water’
13. C.H. Green and S.M. Tunstall (1991), ‘The Evaluation of River
Water Quality Improvements by the Contingent Valuation Method’
14. Christopher G. Leggett and Nancy E. Bockstael (2000), ‘Evidence
of the Effects of Water Quality on Residential Land Prices’
15. Mark Morrison, Jeff Bennett and Russell Blamey (1999), ‘Valuing
Improved Wetland Quality Using Choice Modeling’
16. Gregory L. Poe (1998), ‘Valuation of Groundwater Quality Using
a Contingent Valuation-damage Function Approach’
17. Daigee Shaw, Yu-Lan Chien and Yih-Ming Lin (1999), ‘Alternative
Approach to Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data:
Evaluating Water Quality of a River System in Taipei’
PART III WATER POLLUTION
18. Dana L. Hoag and Jennie S. Hughes-Popp (1997), ‘Theory and
Practice of Pollution Credit Trading in Water Quality
Management’
19. Eithan Hochman, David Zilberman and Richard Just (1977),
‘Internalization in a Stochastic Pollution Model’
20. Donna J. Lee and Richard E. Howitt (1996), ‘Modeling Regional
Agricultural Production and Salinity Control Alternatives for Water
Quality Policy Analysis’
21. Stephen Merrett (2000), ‘Industrial Effluent Policy: Economic
Instruments and Environmental Regulation’
22. Timothy O. Randhir and John G. Lee (1997), ‘Economic and Water
Quality Impacts of Reducing Nitrogen and Pesticide Use in
Agriculture’
23. Alfons Weersink and John Livernois (1996), ‘The Use of Economic
Instruments to Resolve Water Quality Problems from Agriculture’
PART IV IRRIGATION
24. Janis M. Carey and David Zilberman (2002), ‘A Model of
Investment under Uncertainty: Modern Irrigation Technology and
Emerging Markets in Water’
25. Margriet Caswell and David Zilberman (1985), ‘The Choices of
Irrigation Technologies in California’
26. Ujjayant Chakravorty, Eithan Hochman and David Zilberman
(1995), ‘A Spatial Model of Optimal Water Conveyance’
27. A. Dinar and A. Xepapadeas (1998), ‘Regulating Water Quantity
and Quality in Irrigated Agriculture’
28. John Faux and Gregory M. Perry (1999), ‘Estimating Irrigation
Water Value Using Hedonic Price Analysis: A Case Study in Malheur
County, Oregon’
29. Richard L. Gardner and Robert A. Young (1988), ‘Assessing
Strategies for Control of Irrigation-Induced Salinity in the Upper
Colorado River Basin’
30. Richard E. Just and David Zilberman (1985), ‘Income
Distributional Implications of Water Policy Decisions’
31. Susanne M. Scheierling, John B. Loomis and Robert A. Young
(2006), ‘Irrigation Water Demand: A Meta-analysis of Price
Elasticities’
32. R.G. Taylor and Robert A. Young (1995), ‘Rural-to-Urban Water
Transfers: Measuring Direct Foregone Benefits of Irrigation Water
under Uncertain Water Supplies’
PART V GROUNDWATER USE AND MANAGEMENT
33. Gardner Brown, Jr. and Robert Deacon (1972), ‘Economic
Optimization of a Single-Cell Aquifer’
34. Micha Gisser (1983), ‘Groundwater: Focusing on the Real
Issue’
35. Micha Gisser and David A. Sánchez (1980), ‘Competition Versus
Optimal Control in Groundwater Pumping’
36. Petra Hellegers, David Zilberman and Ekko van Ierland (2001),
‘Dynamics of Agricultural Groundwater Extraction’
37. Keith C. Knapp and Lars J. Olson (1995), ‘The Economics of
Conjunctive Groundwater Management with Stochastic Surface
Supplies’
38. Phoebe Koundouri (2004), ‘Current Issues in the Economics of
Groundwater Resource Management’
39. Erik Lichtenberg, David Zilberman and Kenneth T. Bogen (1989),
‘Regulating Environmental Health Risks under Uncertainty:
Groundwater Contamination in California’
40. Bill Provencher and Oscar Burt (1993), ‘The Externalities
Associated with the Common Property Exploitation of
Groundwater’
41. Yacov Tsur and Theodore Graham-Tomasi (1991), ‘The Buffer Value
of Groundwater with Stochastic Surface Water Supplies’
42. Virginia E. Worthington, Oscar R. Burt and Richard L. Brustkern
(1985), ‘Optimal Management of a Confined Groundwater System’
Name Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume
I
PART I RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL WATER USE
1. Fernando Arbués, María Ángeles García-Valiñas and Roberto
Martínez-Espiñeira (2003), ‘Estimation of Residential Water Demand:
A State-of-the-Art Review’
2. T.A. Cameron and M.B. Wright (1990), ‘Determinants of Household
Water Conservation Retrofit Activity: A Discrete Choice Model Using
Survey Data’
3. Diane P. Dupont and Steven Renzetti (2001), ‘The Role of Water
in Manufacturing’
4. Mary E. Renwick and Richard D. Green (2000), ‘Do Residential
Water Demand Side Management Policies Measure Up? An Analysis of
Eight California Water Agencies’
5. Mary E. Renwick and Sandra O. Archibald (1998), ‘Demand Side
Management Policies for Residential Water Use: Who Bears the
Conservation Burden?’
6. Steven Renzetti (1992), ‘Evaluating the Welfare Effects of
Reforming Municipal Water Prices’
7. Steven Renzetti (1999), ‘Municipal Water Supply and Sewage
Treatment: Costs, Prices, and Distortions’
8. Ellen M. Pint (1999), ‘Household Responses to Increased Water
Rates During the California Drought’
PART II RIGHTS, OWNERSHIP AND EFFICIENCY
9. Arunava Bhattacharyya, Elliott Parker and Kambiz Raffiee (1994),
‘An Examination of the Effect of Ownership on the Relative
Efficiency of Public and Private Water Utilities’
10. H. Stuart Burness and James P. Quirk (1979), ‘Appropriative
Water Rights and the Efficient Allocation of Resources’
11. Jasper M. Dalhuisen, Henri L.F. de Groot and Peter Nijkamp
(2000), ‘The Economics of Water: A Survey of Issues’
12. Susan Feigenbaum and Ronald Teeples (1983), ‘Public Versus
Private Water Delivery: A Hedonic Cost Approach’
13. Ronald C. Griffin and Shih-Hsun Hsu (1993), ‘The Potential for
Water Market Efficiency when Instream Flows Have Value’
14. Charles W. Howe, Carolyn S. Boggs and Peter Butler (1990),
‘Transaction Costs as Determinants of Water Transfers’
15. Charles W. Howe, Dennis R. Schurmeier and W. Douglas Shaw, Jr.
(1986), ‘Innovative Approaches to Water Allocation: The Potential
for Water Markets’
16. Ronald N. Johnson, Micha Gisser and Michael Werner (1981), ‘The
Definition of a Surface Water Right and Transferability’
17. Ronald Teeples and David Glyer (1987), ‘Cost of Water Delivery
Systems: Specification and Ownership Effects’
PART III WATER DEMAND AND SUPPLY STUDIES
18. Robert M. Clark and Richard G. Stevie (1981), ‘A Water Supply
Cost Model Incorporating Spatial Variables’
19. Jasper M. Dalhuisen, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Henri L.F. de Groot
and Peter Nijkamp (2003), ‘Price and Income Elasticities of
Residential Water Demand: A Meta-Analysis’
20. Julie A. Hewitt and W. Michael Hanemann (1995), ‘A
Discrete/Continuous Choice Approach to Residential Water Demand
under Block Rate Pricing’
21. Charles W. Howe and F.P. Linaweaver, Jr. (1967), ‘The Impact of
Price on Residential Water Demand and Its Relation to System Design
and Price Structure’
22. Michael L. Nieswiadomy (1992), ‘Estimating Urban Residential
Water Demand: Effects of Price Structure, Conservation, and
Education’
23. Joseph V. Terza and W.P. Welch (1982), ‘Estimating Demand under
Block Rates: Electricity and Water’
24. Stephen J. Turnovsky (1969), ‘The Demand for Water: Some
Evidence on Consumers’ Response to a Commodity in Uncertain
Supply’
25. J.E. Schefter and E.L. David (1985), ‘Estimating Residential
Water Demand under Multi-Part Tariffs Using Aggregate Data’
26. Ralph Turvey (1976), ‘Analyzing the Marginal Cost of Water
Supply’
PART IV WATER PRICING AND MANAGEMENT
27. Eyal Brill, Eithan Hochman and David Zilberman (1997),
‘Allocation and Pricing at the Water District Level’
28. Michael Moore and Ariel Dinar (1995), ‘Water and Land as
Quantity-Rationed Inputs in California Agriculture: Empirical Tests
and Water Policy Implications’
29. James Goldstein (1986), ‘Full-Cost Water Pricing’
30. Ronald C. Griffin (2001), ‘Effective Water Pricing’
31. R. Quentin Grafton and Tom Kompas (2007), ‘Pricing Sydney
Water’
32. Charles W. Howe (1982), ‘The Impact of Price on Residential
Water Demand: Some New Insights’
33. R. Huffaker, N. Whittlesey, A. Michelsen, R. Taylor and T.
McGuckin (1998), ‘Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conservation
Water-Pricing Programs’
34. James E.T. Moncur (1987), ‘Urban Water Pricing and Drought
Management’
35. R. Manning and D. Gallagher (1982), ‘Optimal Water Pricing and
Storage: The Effect of Discounting’
36. G.C. Dandy, E.A. McBean and B.G. Hutchinson (1984), ‘A Model
for Constrained Optimum Water Pricing and Capacity Expansion’
PART V WATER SCARCITY AND RELIABILITY
37. Malin Falkenmark and Jan Lundquist (1998), ‘Towards Water
Security: Political Determination and Human Adaptation Crucial’
38. Ronald C. Griffin and James W. Mjelde (2000), ‘Valuing Water
Supply Reliability’
39. Charles W. Howe and Mark Griffin Smith with Lynne Bennett,
Charles M. Brendecke, J. Ernest Flack, Robert M. Hamm, Roger Mann,
Lee Rozaklis and Karl Wunderlich (1994), ‘The Value of Water Supply
Reliability in Urban Water Systems’
40. Jay R. Lund (1995), ‘Derived Estimation of Willingness to Pay
to Avoid Probabilistic Shortage’
41. Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar (2003), ‘Climate, Water, and
Agriculture’
42. Ari M. Michelsen and Robert A. Young (1993), ‘Optioning
Agricultural Water Rights for Urban Water Supplies During
Drought’
43. James E.T. Moncur and Richard L. Pollock (1988), ‘Scarcity
Rents for Water: A Valuation and Pricing Model’
44. David Seckler, Randolph Barker and Upali Amarasinghe (1999),
‘Water Scarcity in the Twenty-first Century’
45. David Zilberman, Andrew Schmitz, Ariel Dinar and Farhed Shah
(1993), ‘A Water Scarcity or a Water Management Crisis?’
46. R. Quentin Grafton and Michael Ward (2008), ‘Prices versus
Rationing: Marshallian Surplus and Mandatory Water
Restrictions’
PART VI WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN POOR COUNTRIES
47. Mir Anjum Altaf, Dale Whittington, Haroon Jamal and V. Kerry
Smith (1993), ‘Rethinking Rural Water Supply Policy in the Punjab,
Pakistan’
48. Samer Madanat and Frannie Humplick (1993), ‘A Model of
Household Choice of Water Supply Systems in Developing
Countries’
49. Alexander A. McPhail (1994), ‘Why Don’t Households Connect to
the Piped Water System? Observations from Tunis, Tunisia’
50. D.V. Raje, P.S. Dhobe and A.W. Deshpande (2002), ‘Consumer’s
Willingness to Pay More for Municipal Supplied Water: A Case
Study’
51. Wilson S.K. Wasike and Nick Hanley (1998), ‘The Pricing of
Domestic Water Services in Developing Countries: A Contingent
Valuation Application to Kenya’
52. Dale Whittington, Donald T. Lauria and Xinming Mu (1991), ‘A
Study of Water Vending and Willingness to Pay for Water in Onitsha,
Nigeria’
53. World Bank Water Demand Research Team (1993), ‘The Demand for
Water in Rural Areas: Determinants and Policy Implications’
Name Index
Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics, Crawford School, Australian National University
'We have here a wonderfully comprehensive and inspired collection of the best work on this important natural resource. Water remains a seriously problematic political and economic issue throughout the world. These excellent papers will certainly help us to get the economics of water resources right.' - Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, US
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