Overview
- 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
- Describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of water policies, laws and institutions and the reasoning behind policy reform
- Presents the socio-economic setting, especially demographic growth and distribution and relative economic importance of sectors and regions in relation to demand and supply conditions
Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 21)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Water Policy and Its Implementation in Chile
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Front Matter
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Water Sectors in Chile
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Front Matter
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Water Management Challenges
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Policy in Chile
Editors: Guillermo Donoso
Series Title: Global Issues in Water Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76702-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76701-7Published: 11 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09558-1Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76702-4Published: 27 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-0631
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Economics, Economic Geography, Sustainable Development