Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Dan Yaron: The Person, His Work and His Legacy

   • Ariel Dinar, David Zilberman

   Pages 1-7

3. The Israel Water Economy: An Overview

   • Dan Yaron

   Pages 9-20

4. Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Water by Israeli Agriculture

   • Dan Yaron

   Pages 21-34

5. Wheat Response to Soil Moisture and the Optimal Irrigation Policy under Conditions of Unstable Rainfall

   • Dan Yaron, Gadi Strateener, Dani Shimshi, Mordechai Weisbrod

   Pages 35-50

6. A Model for the Economic Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation

   • Dan Yaron, Eshel Bresler

   Pages 51-62

7. Application of Dynamic Programming in Markov Chains to the Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation

   • Dan Yaron, Amikam Olian

   Pages 63-72

8. A Model for Optimal Irrigation Scheduling with Saline Water

   • Dan Yaron, Eshel Bresler, Hanoch Bielorai, Biniamin Harpinist

   Pages 73-87

9. Optimal Allocation of Farm Irrigation Water During Peak Seasons

   • Dan Yaron, Ariel Dinar

   Pages 89-103

10. The Value of Information on the Response Function of Crops to Soil Salinity

    • Eli Feinerman, Dan Yaron

    Pages 105-123

11. A Model for the Analysis of Seasonal Aspects of Water Quality Control

    • Dan Yaron

    Pages 125-141

12. Treatment Optimization of Municipal Wastewater and Reuse for Regional Irrigation

    • Ariel Dinar, Dan Yaron

    Pages 143-164

13. Evaluating Cooperative Game Theory in Water Resources

    • Ariel Dinar, Aaron Ratner, Dan Yaron

    Pages 165-181

14. Adoption and Abandonment of Irrigation Technologies

    • Ariel Dinar, Dan Yaron

    Pages 183-200

15. An Approach to the Problem of Water Allocation to Israel and the Palestinian Entity

    • Dan Yaron

    Pages 201-217

16. Placing Dan Yaron’s Work in the Literature

    • David Zilberman, Ariel Dinar

    Pages 219-225

17. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236

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Colleagues and friends of Dan Yaron submitted the following tributes. While each submission comes from an individual who knew Dan in a very different way, they all remark on his immeasurable contributions to the field of agricultural eco­ nomics, his unique approach, which combines his training and experience with his scientific background, and the admirable professionalism and civility that was apparent in every project he undertook. His work, initially inspired by the chal­ lenge of farmers in the arid Negev, eventually took him to the United States to work with universities and to serve on commissions furnishing his research with global applicability. Dan is not only admired for his enormous contributions to the vast body of research available in his field, but also for the commitment and dedi­ cation he epitomized. He will be greatly missed by those of us who were fortunate enough to make his acquaintance. ELIFEINERMAN The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel Dan Yaron, my teacher and mentor of blessed memory, was a man of wisdom, thought, counsel and deeds. His many talents, his endless energy and his ambition led him to blaze new trails in research, to ask the relevant questions while separat­ ing the wheat from the chaff, and to answer them while mastering the most ad­ vanced scientific analyses.

• Water Resources
• Water resource management
• agriculture
• environment
• soil
• hydrogeology

From the reviews:
"This book should be read and used by environmental economists, water and environmental managers, planners, policy makers and academics. This publication is not just relevant to Israel but to professionals dealing with economic evaluation of water quality in arid regions."
(The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, November 2003)

• The World Bank, USA

  Ariel Dinar

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  David Zilberman

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