Economics of Water Resources

by Yaron, Dan; Zilberman, David; Dinar, Ariel

• ISBN13: 9780792376927
• ISBN10: 0792376927
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The primary focus of the book is the interaction between quantity and quality in water resource management at various levels and sectors. The chapters cover field, farm, and regional-level water allocation issues, as well as international aspects of water sharing. The book demonstrates the use of economic approaches such as linear and non-linear programming, dynamic programming, optimal control, uncertainty, and cooperative and non-cooperative game theory.Good work doesn't perish. The contributions of Dan Yaron summarized in this book represent four decades of analytical and policy work that is as relevant today as it has ever been. Economics of Water Resources: The Contributions of Dan Yaron will interest all students and professionals involved in water resource allocation, water quality aspects, irrigated agriculture, pollution-abatement programs, and in the interaction between irrigated agriculture, environment, and the urban sector. The book is recommended text for graduate courses in economics of water resources.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Dan Yaron: The Person, His Work and His Legacy	p. 1
The Israel Water Economy: An Overview	p. 9
Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Water by Israeli Agriculture	p. 21
Wheat Response to Soil Moisture and the Optimal Irrigation Policy under Conditions of Unstable Rainfall	p. 35
A Model for the Economic Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation	p. 51
Application of Dynamic Programming in Markov Chains to the Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation	p. 63
A Model for Optimal Irrigation Scheduling with Saline Water	p. 73
Optimal Allocation of Farm Irrigation Water during Peak Seasons	p. 89
The Value of Information on the Response Function of Crops to Soil Salinity	p. 105
A Model for the Analysis of Seasonal Aspects of Water Quality Control	p. 125
Treatment Optimization of Municipal Wastewater and Reuse for Regional Irrigation	p. 143
Evaluating Cooperative Game Theory in Water Resources	p. 165
Adoption and Abandonment of Irrigation Technologies	p. 183
An Approach to the Problem of Water Allocation to Israel and the Palestinian Entity	p. 201
Placing Dan Yaron's Work in the Literature	p. 219
Dan Yaron's Graduate Students	p. 227
Index	p. 231
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