Water Policy In Chile

Author : Guillermo Donoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319767024

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Water Policy in Chile by Guillermo Donoso Pdf

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile’s water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change. It describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of water policies, laws and institutions, identifies the main challenges that Chile needs to face and derives lessons learnt from Chile’s reform experience. Expert contributors discuss such topics as Chile’s water policy, and the reasoning which explains its policy reform. The book presents and evaluates the performance of the legal and institutional framework of water resources. It also describes efforts to meet actual demands for water by augmenting supplies with groundwater management, waste water re-use and desalination and improve the state of water ecosystems. The last chapter presents the editor’s assessment and conclusions. The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management.

Author : Renato Gazmuri S.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agricultural administration
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Chilean Water Policy by Renato Gazmuri S. Pdf

Author : Carl J. Bauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461564034

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Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile by Carl J. Bauer Pdf

In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile is the first empirical and interdisciplinary study of water markets in Chile, which is the leading international example of free market water policies. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile challenges the glowing reports given by neoliberals in Chile and the World Bank, showing that the results of this economic experiment have actually been rather mixed. Within the agricultural sector the Water Code has worked fairly well, although the market incentives to conserve water have been ineffective and water rights trading has been less active than expected. The Code's impact has been more negative at the level of river basins, where the institutional framework has revealed critical flaws in coordinating multiple water users and resolving conflicts. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and wider contexts of water markets. This book will appeal to everyone interested in property rights, market-friendly environmental policies, the political economy of sustainable development, and the intersection of economics with law and institutions.

Author : Bonifacio Fernández,Jorge Gironás
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030569013

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Water Resources of Chile by Bonifacio Fernández,Jorge Gironás Pdf

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person. However, water availability varies enormously in space, as less than 1,000 m3/person are available for more than 50% of the population. The temporal and spatial distribution of water resources is driven by processes highly variables across a country with different climates explained not only by a large range of latitudes (from 17° to 56° south), but also the presence of the Pacific Ocean and the Andes with peaks up to 7000 m. This geography makes of Chile a true natural laboratory in which water is essential for the society and the economy of the country. The relevance of water resources for the country has become even more significant in the context of a mega-drought that has affected practically the entire territory in recent years, although large floods such as those in Atacama 2015 and 2017 also take place periodically. This unique book brings together the state-of-art knowledge about the hydrology of Chile and its water resources, with a particular focus on quantitative aspects. The chapters are prepared by many of the most relevant researchers and practitioners working in water resources in the country. High-quality research contributions on climate and meteorology, surface and subsurface hydrology, water quality, water monitoring, water resource and global change, among other issues, are presented in this unique book, which offers a useful guide for academicians, researchers, practitioners and managers dealing with diverse water-related issues in Chile and other regions with similar characteristics

Author : Margot Hill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400757967

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Climate Change and Water Governance by Margot Hill Pdf

The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.

Author : Carl J. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136527746

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Siren Song by Carl J. Bauer Pdf

Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches. Boldly introduced in 1981, the Chilean model is the worlds leading example of a free market approach to water law, water rights, and water resource management. Despite more than a decade of international debate, however, a comprehensive, balanced account of the Chilean experience has been unavailable. Siren Song is an interdisciplinary analysis combining law, political economy, and geography. Carl Bauer places the Chilean model of water law in international context by reviewing the contemporary debate about water economics and policy reform. He follows with an account of the Chilean experience, drawing on primary and secondary sources in Spanish and English, including interviews with key people in Chile. He presents the debate about reforming the law after Chile‘s 1990 return to democratic government, as well as emerging views about how water markets have worked in practice. The resulting book provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Macpherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108473064

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Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation by Elizabeth Jane Macpherson Pdf

A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264278875

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Gaps and Governance Standards of Public Infrastructure in Chile Infrastructure Governance Review by OECD Pdf

This review examines Chile’s infrastructure stock and governance standards in light of the country’s 2030 growth agenda and OECD benchmarks, setting out how change can be achieved, with a special focus on transport and water.

Author : Ariel Dinar,Víctor Pochat,José Albiac-Murillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319164656

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Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations by Ariel Dinar,Víctor Pochat,José Albiac-Murillo Pdf

Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricing experiences in various countries around the world. The book chapters, written by experts in water pricing from various countries, documents the past 10 to 15 years of water pricing experiences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Spain. The book includes also several chapters that review innovations in water pricing in various countries, such as new reform mechanisms, achieving social objectives via water pricing, achieving revenue recovery, water use efficiency and customer equity, and charging the poor.

Author : Monica Ríos Brehm,Jorge Quiroz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821333070

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The Market for Water Rights in Chile by Monica Ríos Brehm,Jorge Quiroz Pdf

Reviews labor market outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and analyzes what is required to spur economic growth through increased efficiency of physical and human capital. World Development Report 1995: Workers in an Integrating World examines ways of improving labor outcomes in low- and middle-income economies. This regional perspective focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the four areas in need of labor policy reform that were identified in the Report: development strategy, international integration, labor market interventions, and transformation to greater market orientation. The paper reviews labor market outcomes in the region and analyzes what is required to achieve economic growth through increased efficiency of physical and human capital. It examines Africa's role in the world economy and why greater integration is essential to the region. It also discusses labor policies and how workers in the region are affected by the transition to open development strategies. The prospects for the region's growing labor force are briefly reviewed.

Author : Manuel Lago,Jaroslav Mysiak,Carlos M. Gómez,Gonzalo Delacámara,Alexandros Maziotis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319182872

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Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy by Manuel Lago,Jaroslav Mysiak,Carlos M. Gómez,Gonzalo Delacámara,Alexandros Maziotis Pdf

This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where possible, quantify) the effectiveness of each EPI on the basis of different criteria. Outcome-oriented criteria describe how the EPIs perform. They include intended and unintended economic and environmental outcomes and the distribution of benefits and costs among the affected parties. These steps consider the application of cost effectiveness and cost benefits analysis, e.g. to assess ex-post performance of the EPI. Process criteria describe the institutional conditions (legislative, political, cultural, etc.) affecting the formation and operation of the EPI studied (particularly relevant for assessing the possible impacts of using economic instruments), the transaction costs involved in implementing and enforcing the instruments and the process of implementation. Case studies from Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as from Australia, Chile, Israel and the USA are presented in this book. A wide variety of EPIs are also covered, including water-pricing schemes (tariffs, environmental taxes, environmental charges or fees, subsidies on products and practices), trading schemes (tradable permits for abstraction and pollution) and cooperation mechanisms.

Author : Robert R. Hearne,K. William Easter
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821335286

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Water Allocation and Water Markets by Robert R. Hearne,K. William Easter Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 315. Focuses on water allocation problems and the performance of water markets in improving allocation. By examining specific case studies in Chile, it demonstrates that water can no longer be treated as a free good and that better ways must be found to improve its allocation and use. The findings suggest that market transfer of water use rights in the study area produce economic gains both in intersectoral trade and trade among farmers and create rents for buyers and sellers.

Author : Carl Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Global governance
ISBN : OCLC:1102386792

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Siren Song by Carl Bauer Pdf

Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches. Boldly introduced in 1981, the Chilean model is the worlds leading example of a free market approach to water law, water rights, and water resource management. Despite more than a decade of international debate, however, a comprehensive, balanced account of the Chilean experience has been unavailable. Siren Song is an interdisciplinary analysis combining law, political economy, and geography. Carl Bauer places the Chilean model of water law in international context by reviewing the contemporary debate about water economics and policy reform. He follows with an account of the Chilean experience, drawing on primary and secondary sources in Spanish and English, including interviews with key people in Chile. He presents the debate about reforming the law after Chiles 1990 return to democratic government, as well as emerging views about how water markets have worked in practice. The resulting book provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.

Author : Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : 9781487524036

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The Wonder of Water by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Pdf

Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs. This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways.

Author : Madeline Baer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190693176

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Stemming the Tide by Madeline Baer Pdf

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking. Water privatization, one of the more unpopular policies of the neoliberal development paradigm, sparked a particularly fierce debate and gave rise to a movement of self-proclaimed "water warriors" who advocated for legal recognition of water as a basic human right to be protected and fulfilled by states. Broadening the debate, Madeline Baer questions whether either approach -- the market approach or a human rights-based approach -- leads to improved access to water. More specifically, Baer explores how the human right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change. Using two case studies -- Chile, the most extreme case of water privatization in the developing world, and Bolivia, the birthplace of the global movement for the human right to water -- Stemming the Tide uncovers the conditions under which the right to water and sanitation can be fulfilled, as well as the obstacles to fulfilment. Ultimately this book argues that deepening mechanisms for citizen participation, strengthening accountability, and creating alternatives to the state/market binary can help achieve meaningful social transformation in the water sector.