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Economics of Water Resources: From Regulation to Privatization

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  • © 1998
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  1. Nicolas Spulber
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  2. Asghar Sabbaghi
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Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 13)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. The Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Water Resource Management

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 3-14

    3. Water Demand Side

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 15-36

    4. Water Supply Side

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 37-54

    5. Market Processes in Water Allocation

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 55-72

  3. Integration of Water Quantity-Quality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-74
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    2. Pollutants and Their Specific Impact

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 75-96

    3. The Economic-Ecological System

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 97-142

    4. Water Reuse and Recycling

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 143-167

  4. Interaction of Management and Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-170
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    2. Assessment of Administrative Controls

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 171-188

    3. Impetus for Water Privatization

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 189-218

    4. Management on River Basin Levels

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 219-259

    5. Quality-Discriminant Water Pricing

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 261-284

  5. The Scope of Regulations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
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    2. Regulations Compatible with Privatization

      • Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
      Pages 287-302

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 303-342
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The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first. This has offered us the opportunity to update the materials and to expand the exposition ofour central theses concerning (1) the integration of water quantity-quality issues and the treatment of water as a multi-product commodity, with the market playing a major role in determining water quality-discriminant pricing; (2) the drawbacks of public controls, regulation and enforcement, and the need to expand privatization of water supply and of water and wastewater treatment facilities to ensure their appropriate development and modernization through increased reliance on private capital; (3) the unification and centralization of water management on the river basin level in order to handle effectively the expanding pressures for water availability, for the elimination of waterborne disease, for extensive and effective pollution abatement as well as coping with the related issues of soil erosion, siltation in streams, channels, and reservoirs, protection against distress from drought and floods, and with the myriad problems relating to the environment, recreation, and navigation. We have maintained the division ofthe book into four major parts and 12 chapters.

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`The authors of this worthwhile book should be commended for their thorough research of numerous aspects of water quantity, quality, economics and management of water resources, and modeling for water quality-discriminant pricing. ... this book is of interest to all concerned with water resources. ... a thorough, timely, and valuable contribution to the literature on water resources. From an academic perspective, this book would make an excellent supplemental text for an economics course on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.'
Quarterly Bulletin of the Iranian Academic Association in North America, 3:1-2 (1998)

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