Water Quantity/Quality Management and Conflict Resolution: Institutions, Processes, and Economic Analyses - Hardcover

by Ariel Dinar (Editor), Edna T. Loehman (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

ARIEL DINAR is an Economist with the World Bank's Agriculture and Natural Resources Department in Washington DC. His work has been devoted to water resources problems at field, farm, regional and international levels.

EDNA TUSAK LOEHMAN is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. Her work concerns welfare economics and policy analysis, environmental and resource economics and decision making.