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Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples
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Dinar, Ariel
From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria -maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production. Societies have invested capital in infrastructure to maintain this allocation. Yet social change, including changes in (and more u [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 41p., Ref.
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Decentralization of River Basin Management A Global Analysis
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Dinar, Ariel
Decentralization and increased stakeholder involvement have been major elements of water sector reform as ways to promote sustainable and integrated resource management particularly of river basins. Based on an analytical framework for relating decentralization and stakeholder involvement to improved river basin management, this paper infers severa [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 91p. R.
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Water allocation and water markets: an analysis of gains from trade in Chile
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Hearne, Robert R.
This paper is intended to reinforce the World Bank's overall effort to improve the management of natural resources and to highlight the importance of water resources in particular. The paper focuses on water allocation problems and the performance of water markets in improving allocation. By examining specific case studies in Chile, one of the few [...]
The World Bank; 1995 - 75p.
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Tradable water rights: A property rights approach to resolving water shortages and promoting investment
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Holden, Paul
In most countries, the state owns the water and hydraulic infrastructure, and public officials decide who gets water rights, how the water is to be used, and how much will be charged for its use. The authors of this paper compare administered systems of water allocation with a system of tradable water rights, and argue that water allocation by admi [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 23p.
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Water allocation strategies for the Kat Basin in South Africa:comparing negotiation tools and game theory models
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Dinar, Ariel
Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that is a component of the Companion Modeling approach, a [...]
the World Bank; - 28p; Ref
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Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector
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Dinar, Ariel
It is difficult and time-consuming to get adequate information about influence groups in a society. Dinar, Balakrishnan, and Wambia develop an approach to estimating the political risk associated with implementing a set of institutional reforms in the water sector. Their approach endogenizes the actions taken by politicians, users, service provider [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 40p., Ref.
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Addressing China's Growing Water Shortages and Associated Social and Environmental Consequences
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Shalizi, Zmarak
China has experienced a wide-scale and rapid transformation from an agricultural based economy to the manufacturing workshop of the world. The associated relocation of the population from relatively low density rural areas to very high density urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into t [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 34p; Ref.
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Water policy for efficient agricultural diversification: market-based approaches
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
The rapid liberalization of developing economies encourages agricultural diversi- fication and commercialization. Prevailing water allocation methods have tended to limit the flexibility of farmers in realiocating resources in response to changing incentives. Reform of water allocation mechanisms has lagged behind other input sectors, [...]
IFPRI; 1995 - 21p.
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Efficiency and Equity Consideration in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water
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Tsur, Yacov
May 1995 Pricing of water may affect allocation considerations by users. Efficiency is attainable whenever the pricing method affects the demand for irrigation water. The extent to which water pricing methods can affect income redistribution is limited [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 40p., tableaux, bibliogr.
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The political economy of water pricing reforms
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DINAR, Ariel
Oxford University Press; 2000 - 403p., Ref.
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Water resources in the Asia-Pacific Region: managing scarcity
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
IFPRI; 1996 -
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Restoring and protecting the World's lakes and reservoirs
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Dinar, Ariel
Human activities are threatening the sustainable use of lakes and reservoirs around the globe. These sources of water are critical components in the ecological system. They provide habitat, sanctuary, and food for many species of fish and wildlife and are also a source of many beneficial uses for humankind [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 85p., bibliogr., maps
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Are Stable Agreements for sharing International River Waters now possible?
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D. Marc Kilgour
June 1995 Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand. The suggested scheme is expected to improve the efficiency of river basins' water allocation and the riparians' welfare. International river and lake basins constitute about 4 [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 20p.
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Designing Water Institutions: market failures and institutional response
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Livingston, Marie Leigh
To foster economic efficiency, says the author, rights to water resources must be both secure and flexible. Designing institutions to deal with the physical peculiarities of water in a way that establishes sensible incentives and efficient resource use is complicated. Basically, establishing security in water rights requires protecting water users [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 25p., bibliogr.
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Management of water resources: bulk water pricing in Brazil
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Asad, Muisa
This document compares analytical work done on Brazil with the experience of bulk water pricing in other countries to arrive at practical recommendations for determining fair bulk water pricing in Brazil. Adequate pricing of bulk water is critical to ensure efficient allocation of water, and to properly fund the maintenance and operation costs invo [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 116p.
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Pricing irrigation water: A literature survey
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Johansson, Robert C.
As water scarcity and population pressures increase, more countries are adopting water pricing mechanisms, as their primary means of regulating the consumption of irrigation water. The way to allocate water efficiently is to "get the prices right", but how to accomplish this is open to debate. Water pricing methods are sensitive to the social, phys [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 80p., Ref.
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Strategies for pricing publicity provided health services
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Gertler, Paul J.
The authors examine how governments finance and allocate public spending, with an eye to developing strategies for pricing publicly provided health services. They also examine the implications of current policy and the possibility for rationalizing competing government priorities. Because governments face budget constraints and cannot fully subsidi [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 35p.
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Improving water resource management in Bangladesh
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Faruqee, Rashid
As populations expand and make various uses of water, its growing scarcity becomes a serious issue in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Water can no longer be considered a totally free resource and plans must be developed for its efficient use through better management and rules that preserve everybody's access to it and interest in its deve [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 42p.
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Cooperative game Theory and its application to Natural, Environmental, and Water Resource Issues. 2.Application to Natural and Environmental Resources Issues 2 Application to Natural and environmental Ressources.
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Zara, Stefano
This paper provides a review of various applications of cooperative game theory (CGT) to issues of natural and environmental resources. With an increase in the level of competition over environmental and natural resources, the incidents of disputes have been at the center of allocation agreements. The paper reviews the cases of common pool resource [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 83p.; Ref.
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Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies
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Young, Robert.A
This monograph reviews, assesses and describes the operational use of the concepts and methods for estimating economic benefits of investment and allocation decisions involving water. The main focus of the report is on valuation of changes in water supply although attention is also given to measuring benefits of increased reliability of water suppl [...]
World Bank; - 118p.
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