Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction and Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Overview

      • Douglas D. Parker, Yacov Tsur

      Pages 1-5

3. Regional Water Constraints: Middle East, California, Florida, and Australia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The Israel Water Economy: An Overview

      • Dan Yaron

      Pages 9-22

   3. The Jordan River Basin: Beyond National Concerns

      • Janusz Kindler

      Pages 23-32

   4. Water Resources in Turkey: Availability, Use, and Management

      • Erol H. Cakmak

      Pages 33-44

   5. California’s Water Resources and Institutions

      • Douglas D. Parker

      Pages 45-54

   6. Decentralized Water Allocation in Florida

      • William G. Boggess

      Pages 55-66

   7. Australia’s Water Situation: Resource Allocation and Management in a Maturing System

      • John J. Pigram

      Pages 67-85

4. Economic Modeling of Decentralized Water Management Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Political Economy of Water Allocation

      1. The Political Economy of Domestic Water Allocation: The Cases of Israel and Jordan

         • Richard E. Just, Sinaia Netanyahu, John K. Horowitz

         Pages 89-113

      2. Transboundary Water Agreements and Development Assistance

         • George B. Frisvold, Margriet F. Caswell

         Pages 115-131

      3. Informational Imperfections in Water Resource Systems and the Political Economy of Water Supply and Pricing in Israel

         • Pinhas Zusman

         Pages 133-154

      4. The Strategic Interdependence of a Shared Water Aquifer: A General Equilibrium Analysis

         • Terry Roe, Xinshen Diao

         Pages 155-178

   3. Water Institutions: Transition to Markets and Other Decentralized Allocation Mechanism

      1. Designing Institutions for Water Management

         • James Roumasset

         Pages 179-198

      2. Employing Market Mechanisms to Encourage Efficient Use of Water in the Middle East

         • Nir Becker, Naomi Zeitouni, Mordechai Shechter

         Pages 199-220

      3. Efficient Management of Water in Agriculture

         • David Zilberman, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Farhed Shah

         Pages 221-246

      4. Deriving Short-Run, Multistage Demand Curves and Simulating Market Prices for Reservoir Water Under Weather Uncertainty

         • Norman Dudley, Bradley Scott

         Pages 247-260

      5. Water Institutions, Incentives, and Markets

         • K. William Easter, Gershon Feder

         Pages 261-282

Centralized, top-down management of water resources through regulations has created unnecessary economic burdens upon users. More flexible decentralized controls through the use of economic incentives have gained acceptance over the past decade. The theme of this book is the increasing efforts throughout water-scarce regions to rely upon economic incentives and decentralized mechanisms for efficient water management and allocation.
The book begins with a section of introductory chapters describing water systems, institutions, constraints, and similarities in the following regions: Israel and the Middle East, Turkey, California, Florida, and Australia. Four of these regions face similar climates with wet winters and dry summers. Florida has a more even seasonal distribution of rainfall, yet it uses similar management strategies in controlling groundwater demand and water quality.
The book concludes with a section on water management case studies. These case studies examine issues of conflict related to both water quality and water quantity. While the case studies address both international and intranational concerns in specific regions of the world, they portray broad principles that are applicable to many regions.

• Water Resources
• Water resource management
• controlling
• development
• groundwater
• hydrogeology

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Douglas D. Parker

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

  Yacov Tsur

• University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

  Yacov Tsur

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