Water: Economics, Management and Demand

ISBN-13: 9780419218401 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 432 str.

Melvyn Kay; Tom Franks; Laurence Smith

Opis

This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European ICID conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water and should be of interest to planners, designers, policy makers in the water industry, national and local government, academic researchers and environment agencies.

Spis treści

Section A: The value of water for irrigation. Section B: The balue of drainage and flood control. Section C: Social and environmental value of water. Section D: Payment for services. Section E: Management systems. Section F: Policy framework - Legal and institutional issues

O autorze

M. Kay, T. Franks and L.E.D. Smith