Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity : International Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780415638210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 376 str.

Josefina Maestu

Opis

Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. One of the key water management options for water demand is water trading. Water trading can contribute to water reallocation and in this way improve efficiency of water use and decouple economic growth and the use of water resources, thus contributing also to improve environmental river flows. This book explores the role of water trading, as an instrument of integrated water resources management.

Spis treści

Introduction: Myths, Principles, and Issues in Water Trading  Part 1: Water Trading experiences  1. Introduction: How We Are Implementing Water Trading: Learning from Experience  2. Managing Water Stress, Drought and Climate Change in The 21st Century: Water Trading as part of Integrated Approaches in Water Management  3. New Frontiers for Water Management. The California Experience  4. Water Trades in The Western US: Risk, Speculation And Property Rights  5. Water Markets and Their Environmental, Social And Economic Impact In Australia  6. Trading Into and Out of Trouble. Australian’s Water Allocation and Trading Experience  7. The Evolution of Water Markets in Chile  8. The Experience of Water Markets and the Market Model in Chile  9. Breaking the Gridlock in Water Reforms through Water Markets: Experience and Issues for India  10. Areas of Conflict and the role of Water Trading: the case of Spain  11. Voluntary Water Trading in Spain: a Mixed Approach of Public and Private Initiatives  Part 2: Concerns about Water Trading and how are we dealing with them  12. Introduction: Concerns about Water Trading  13. The Myth of Markets For Water  14. Cash Flows: Markets for Environmental Flow Allocations  15. Experiences with Water Quality Trading in the United States of America  Part 3: Reforms to overcome legal and institutional barriers to trading  16. Introduction: Considering Institutional frameworks and institutional reforms in trading  17. Water and Development in Latina America: Rights, Markets, Economic Context and Institutional Requirements  18. The Theory and Practice of Australian Institutional Reforms to Incorporate Water Markets in Integrated Water Resources Management  19. Legal reforms that facilitate trading of water use rights in Spain  20. Drought Management, Uncertainty and Option Contracts  Part 4: Can we get incentives right?  21. Introduction: Incentives and prices in water trading  22. Models for Optimal Water Management and Conflict Resolution  23. Optimization Modelling in Water Resource Systems and Markets  Conclusions and Recommendations for Implementing Water Trading: How Water Trading can be Part of the Solution