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The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market-based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management. This book deals with drought policy in Chile and other countries. It offers a detailed examination of drought management and policies. It describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of drought policies, laws and institutions, identifies the main challenges that Chile faces and derives lessons learnt. Expert contributors discuss such topics as Chile's drought water policy, and the reasoning which explains present challenges.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary vision of drought.- Chapter 2. Definition and characterization of drought.- Part I. Setting and country context: Drought impacts in Chile.- Chapter 3. The Chilean economy: A general profile.- Chapter 4. Climatic profile of Chile and drought characteristics in Chile.- Chapter 5. Economic Impacts of Droughts on Agriculture and Urban Water Supply sector.- Chapter 6. Impacts of droughts on water quality: Processes and monitoring.- Chapter 7. Institutionality, governance and drought management policies in Chile.- Part II. Comparative experiences in drought management.- Chapter 8. Drought Policy Overview: Insights from South America region.- Chapter 9. Drought policy and governance in Spain: New tools and remaining challenges.- Chapter 10. Understanding Drought in California.- Chapter 11. Drought policy in Australia.- Part III. Improving drought management in Chile: Policy proposals and adaptation options.- Chapter 12. General assessment of drought management and proposals.- Chapter 13. Towards a drought monitoring, tracking, and management platform based on quantitative indices.- Chapter 14. Remote sensing phenology as a tool for monitoring the impact of drought on forest ecosystem productivity in temperate forests of South America.- Chapter 15. Sentinel Hydrological Processes: Informing Drought Management Strategies in Chile.- Chapter 16. Contingent agreements to reduce the impacts of droughts on human water consumption.- Chapter 17. Water reuse in Chile: An alternative to face the drought.- Chapter 18. Desalinization in times of drought.- Chapter 19. Evaluation of multipurpose reservoir operating policies at basin and electric power system scale.- Chapter 20. Conclusions.
About the author
Daniela Rivera holds a Law Degree from Universidad de Talca, a Master's degree in Legal Sciences and a Doctorate in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor member of the Center for Water Law and Management of the same University, of which she was director between 2017 and 2023. Her lines of research are water law and management, an area in which she is the author of several publications and participates in various research projects, both in Chile and abroad.
Guillermo Donoso is an Agricultural and Natural Resource Economist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has a Ph.D from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park. He is a full Professor of Agricultural Economics Department and director of the Center for Water Law and Management of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has held the position of Dean of the Facultad de Agronomía y Sistemas Naturales of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 1998 to 2007. His publications include books, book chapters, and publications in Water Resources Management, Water Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Water Science and Technology, International Water Resources Development and Agricultural Water Management, among others.
Summary
The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market-based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management. This book deals with drought policy in Chile and other countries. It offers a detailed examination of drought management and policies. It describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of drought policies, laws and institutions, identifies the main challenges that Chile faces and derives lessons learnt. Expert contributors discuss such topics as Chile’s drought water policy, and the reasoning which explains present challenges.
