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Increasing world demands for water call for new institutions and rules to minimize economic and political conflicts. Growing water quality problems from industry and agriculture only further exacerbate supply problems. Such conflicts can jeopardize economic and, in some parts of the world, even social order. To help understand the benefits and pitfalls of possible alternative organizations, the contributors focus on local, interregional and international cases, using a variety of economic analysis methods. Practitioners, students, and scholars will find this work a valuable resource in water policy, environmental policy, resource economics, and civil engineering.
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Introduction
Institutions and Processes; Concepts and Case StudiesManagement of Water Problems through Laws and Government Organizations
Evaluation of Two Institutional Arrangements for Resolving Interstate Water Disputes by William B. Lord and Douglas S. Kenney
The Role of the U.S. Government in Water Quality and Quantity Issues by Cynthia Dyballa
The Federal Clean Water Act and Its Application to the San Francisco Bay Estuary by Gregory A. Thomas
Institutional Development and Performance in Managing Southern California Groundwater Basins by William Blomquist
Water Use and Transfer in Taiwan by Ching-Kai Hsiao
Water Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in India by Shashikant Raghunath Sahasrabudhe, Ved Prakesh Vohra, and Mukesh Kumar
Conflict Resolution in Ontario Water Resources Policy by Isobel W. Heathcote
Interstate Water Management: The Case of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia by Warren Musgrave
Design of Markets and Other Institutions
The Design of Institutional Arrangements for Water Allocation by K. William Easter and Yacov Tsur
Resolving Water Transfer Conflicts Through Changes in the Water Market Process by Charles W. Howe and David J. Goodman
Alienable Privatization Policies: The Choice between Inefficiency and Injustice by Norman Frohlich and Joe Oppenheimer
Integrating Equity, Efficiency, and Orderly Development in Western U.S. Groundwater Allocation by Arthur H. Chan
Integration of Quantity and Quality in a Water Market by Asghar Sabbaghi and Nicolas Spulber
Conflict Resolution Through Bargaining, Negotiation, and Mediation
Toward a New Nile Waters Agreement by Dale Whittington, John Waterbury, and Elizabeth McClelland
Resolving Conflicts Over Water Disputes in the Jordan River Basin by Aaron Wolf and Stephen Lonergan
Conflict Over Eastern U.S. Water Transfers: Toward a New Era of Negotiation? by Leonard A. Shabman and William E. Cox
Western U.S. Indian Water Conflicts: A Discussion of Economic Issues by Bonnie G. Colby
Resolving Intergovernmental Water Disputes through Negotiation by Jeffrey L. Jordan
Lessons in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Denver Water Department by Kathleen Anderson and Tim Holeman
Resolving Environmental Conflicts through Mediation by An Painter
Bargaining and Water Disputes: A Perspective on the Coming Decade by Leonard A. Shabman
Coalitions, Collective Action, and Cooperation
Competing Demands for California's Scarce Water by Richard E. Howitt and Henry Vaux
Collective Action in Irrigation by Raouf F. Khouzam
Cooperative Solutions for Problems of Water Supply by Edna Tusak Loehman
Cooperative and Noncooperative Water Diversion in the Great Lakes Basin by Nir Becker and K. William Easter
Innovations in Cooperation: North American Waterfowl Management Plan by Luther P. Gerlach
Methods of Economic AnalysisDesigning Institutional Rules
Protecting the Quality of Water Resources: Designing an Emission Charge System in New Zealand by Frank Scrimgeour
Political Economy of the Transition from Water Rights to Water Markets by Farhed A. Shah and David Zilberman
Minimizing Potential Distortions in a Spot Water Market: A Multilateral Bargaining Approach by R. Maria Saleth and John B. Braden
A Bargaining Model for Water Transfers Including Water Quality by George B. Frisvold and Margriet F. Caswell
Common Pool Resources: The Relevance of Laboratory Experimental Research by Steven C. Hackett and James M. Walker
Evaluation of Alternatives and Interest Group Analysis
Positional Analysis Applied to Water Pollution Problems in Developing Countries by Dugushilu Mafunda and Stale Navrud
Political Power Measures for Water Management Interest Groups by C. Robert Stark, Jr., David S. Bullock, and Wesley D. Seitz
Analyzing Interest Group Preferences for Groundwater Management: An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Keith Willett and Ramesh Sharda
Contingent Valuation in Resolving Local Public Water Problems by Wesley N. Musser, Lynn M. Musser, Andrew S. Laughland, and James S. Shortle
Economic and Political Analysis of Dredging Ohio's State Park Lakes by Fred J. Hitzhusen, Somskaow Bejranonda, Timothy Lehman, and Robert Macgregor
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