Economics Of Water Quality In Agriculture

Author : James Shortle,Markku Ollikainen,Antti Iho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030470876

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Water Quality and Agriculture by James Shortle,Markku Ollikainen,Antti Iho Pdf

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong direction. This book addresses the economics of water pollution control and water pollution control policy in agriculture, with an aim towards providing students, environmental policy analysts, and other environmental professionals with economic concepts and tools essential to understanding the problem and crafting solutions that can be effective and efficient. The book will also examine existing policies and proposed reforms in the developed world. Although this book addresses and has a general applicability to major water pollutants from agriculture (e.g., pesticides, pharmaceuticals, sediments, nutrients), it will focus on the sediment and nutrient pollution problem. The economic and scientific foundations for pollution management are best developed for these pollutants, and they are currently the top priorities of policy makers. Accordingly, the authors provide both highly salient and informative cases for developing concepts and methods of general applicability, with high profile examples such as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone in the US; the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe; and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

Author : Naomi Zeitouni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351890939

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The Economics of Water Quality by Naomi Zeitouni Pdf

This volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues. The studies focus on the economic aspects of water quality including identifying the polluters' actions and incentives, designing and comparing control mechanisms, analyzing the costs and benefits of water quality programmes, and finally managing transboundary water quality. They all make recommendations for improving water quality through changing incentives, programmes and/or policies.

Author : Thomas Bournaris,Julio Berbel,Basil Manos,Davide Viaggi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482238396

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Economics of Water Management in Agriculture by Thomas Bournaris,Julio Berbel,Basil Manos,Davide Viaggi Pdf

This book includes a set of papers from distinguished scholars who critically examine economic issues relating to the relationship between water and agriculture, with a special focus on irrigation. Employing state of the art methodologies, they address the most relevant issues in water policy. The volume offers a wide spectrum of innovative approaches and original and relevant cases with a focus on irrigated European agriculture. The topics analyzed include qualitative and quantitative issues, water markets, demand analysis, economic analysis, implementation of economic issues.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264168060

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OECD Studies on Water Water Quality and Agriculture Meeting the Policy Challenge by OECD Pdf

This book examines linking policies and farm management to improve water quality.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780401324

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Water Quality and Agriculture by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Pdf

This report on Water Quality and Agriculture examines the linkages between agriculture and water quality. It discusses the overall trends and outlook for agriculture and water quality in OECD countries; describes recent actions by policy makers to address water quality issues in agriculture; and provides a set of recommendations for countries to meet the challenge of improving agricultural water quality.

Author : Nicolas Spulber,Asghar Sabbaghi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401583213

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Economics of Water Resources: From Regulation to Privatization by Nicolas Spulber,Asghar Sabbaghi Pdf

The purpose of this book is to develop a general economic model which integrates the quantity and quality issues of water resource management and to provide, along with a detailed criticism of the policy instruments now in use, alternative proposals concerning the efficient allocation and distribution of water. In particular we treat water as a multi-product commodity where the market plays a major role in determining water quality-discriminant pricing and its value to the user. We examine the process of moving from administrative allocation and regulation to privatization of the water industry as the key element in promoting effective competition and in providing economic incentives for greater efficiency. Water quantity and quality, considered independently of each other, have been the subject of numerous studies during the last twenty years. Let us recall briefly the most outstanding among them. A variety of models have been constructed concerning the optimal scheduling and sequence of water-supply projects: dynamic programming for solving multi-bjective functions in water resource development; planning models for coordinating regional water-resource supply and demand, etc. Other studies have devised water-quality management models, including multi-period design of regional or municipal wastewater systems; cost-allocation methods to induce effluent dischargers to participate in regional water systems; models to predict the quality of effluent (in particular, whether it meets certain established standards); models for finding optimal waste-removal policies at each of the polluting sources, and so on.

Author : Steven Renzetti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461508656

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The Economics of Water Demands by Steven Renzetti Pdf

This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears. I began that paper by pointing to the growing importance of demand-side considerations in water resources: "The provision of potable water is one of government's oldest functions with evidence of this activity stretching back thousands of years. During much of that time, water demands were taken as exogenously given and the principle task of authorities was defined as an engineering one: how to supply a given quantity of water at least cost. In recent years, however, concerns have arisen from observations of excessive water use, degraded water quality and continued inadequate service for many, especially the very poor. As a result of these and other concerns, there is a growing effort to view water resource allocation from a perspective that incorporates consumers' preferences along with supply constraints into management plans. " (Renzetti, 2000, p. 123). The purpose of this volume is to examine, in greater detail than was possible in that article, what is known regarding the economic characteristics of the demand for water. Thus, this book is meant to be an extended critical review of the state of the art.

Author : R. Kerry Turner
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251051909

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Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture by R. Kerry Turner Pdf

The purpose of this report is to produce a review on water resource valuation issues and techniques specifically for the appraisal and negotiation of raw (as opposed to bulk or retail) water resource allocation for agricultural development projects. The review considers raw water in naturally occurring watercourses, lakes, wetlands, soil and aquifers, taking an ecosystem function perspective at a catchment scale, and takes account of the demands from irrigated and rainfed agriculture. It is hoped that the review will have particular application to developing countries where agreed methods for reconciling competing uses are often absent, but nevertheless takes account of valuation approaches that have been made in post industrial economies.

Author : Ariel Dinar,David Zilberman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461540281

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The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture by Ariel Dinar,David Zilberman Pdf

Jan van Schilfgaarde, USDA Agricultural Research Service and National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems In 1982, a startling discovery was made. Many waterbirds in Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge were dying or suffering reproductive failure. Located in the San Joaquin Valley (Valley) of California, the Kesterson Reservoir (Kesterson) was used to store agricultural drainage water and it was soon determined that the probable cause of the damage to wildlife was high concen trations of selenium, derived from the water and water organisms in the reservoir. This discovery drastically changed numerous aspects of water management in California, and especially affected irrigated agriculture. In fact, the repercussions spilled over to much of the Western United States. For a century, water development for irrigation has been a religiously pursued means for economic development of the West. The primary objective of the Reclamation Act of 1902 was, purportedly, the development ofirrigation water to support family farms which, in turn, would enhance the regional economy (Worster, 1985).

Author : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Water quality
ISBN : WISC:89033412347

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Economics of Transferring Water by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development Pdf

Author : Renan-Ulrich Goetz,Dolors Berga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387300566

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Frontiers in Water Resource Economics by Renan-Ulrich Goetz,Dolors Berga Pdf

Most of the books published previously in the field of water resource eco nomics focus on particular aspects of water economics such as institutions, pricing or water markets, but none of them have given particular attention to methodological questions. However, the applied methodology within economic research has made some remarkable advances over the last 10-20 years. Some of these advances are of particular interest to the field of water economics. Therefore, we think that a book that focusing on methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and showing how these advances can be applied in economic analysis of water issues makes a nice complement to the existing literature in this field. We identified five areas where we consider the methodological advances to be of particular importance: 1) asymmetric information and game theory, 2) un certainty, 3) space, 4) water quality and 5) production and technology adoption. The selected papers for the book fall entirely within these categories. The book ''Frontiers in Water Resource Economics" draws to a great extent on papers which were presented at the 7^^ Conference of the International Water and Re source Economics Consortium, June 3-5,2001 held in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, This conference was jointly organized with the 4^^ Conference of Environmen tal and Resource Economics by the Department of Economics, University of Girona.

Author : Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135040512

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Determining the Economic Value of Water by Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis Pdf

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits. This volume provides the most comprehensive exposition to-date of the application of economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies. It provides a conceptual framework for valuation of both commodity and public good uses of water, addressing non-market valuation techniques appropriate to measuring public benefits - including water quality improvement, recreation, and fish habitat enhancement. The book describes the various measurement methods, illustrates how they are applied in practice, and discusses their strengths, limitations, and appropriate roles. In this second edition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated, and in particular the coverage of water markets and valuation of ecosystem services from water has been expanded. Robert Young, author of the 2005 edition, has been joined for this new edition by John Loomis, who brings additional expertise on ecosystem services and the environmental economics of water for recreational and other public good uses of water.

Author : Stephen R. Crutchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Agricultural chemicals
ISBN : UIUC:30112019265054

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Agricultural and Water-quality Conflicts by Stephen R. Crutchfield Pdf

Author : Mary E. Renwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351159272

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Economics of Water Resources by Mary E. Renwick Pdf

Water is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in many parts of the world. Population growth plus a growing appetite for larger quantities of cheap water quality as a result of urban, industrial, and agricultural pollution coupled with increasing environmental demands have further reduced usable suppliers. This book brings together thirty of the best economic articles addressing water scarcity issues within the US and Mexico. By touching on a number of different issues, this volume clearly articulates the need for improving existing institutional arrangements as well as for developing new arrangements to address growing water scarcity problems.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264168052

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OECD Studies on Water Water Quality and Agriculture Meeting the Policy Challenge by OECD Pdf

This book examines linking policies and farm management to improve water quality.