Irrigation Water Pricing - The Gap Between Theory and Practice

Informationen zum Autor François Molle is a Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France and holds a joint appointment with the International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka) Klappentext Much hope has been vested in pricing as a means of helping to regulate and rationalize water management! notably in the irrigation sector. The pricing of water has often been applied universally! using general and ideological policies! and not considering regional environmental and economic differences. Almost 15 years after the emphasis laid at the Dublin and Rio conferences on treating water as an economic good! a comprehensive review of how such policies have helped manage water resources an irrigation use is necessary.The case-studies presented here offer a reassessment of current policies by evaluating their objectives and constraints and often demonstrating their failure by not considering the regional context. They will therefore contribute to avoiding costly and misplaced reforms and help design water policies that are based on a deeper understanding of the factors which eventually dictate their effectiveness.

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• Authors: Jeremy Berkoff, F. (EDT)/ Berkoff Molle, Fran Ois Molle, Francois Molle, François Molle
• Assisted by: J. Berkoff (Editor), F. Molle (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2007
• EAN: 9781845932923
• ISBN: 978-1-84593-292-3
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series; Comprehensive Assessment of Wa; Comprehensive Assessment of Wa
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics