Hydroeconomic Analysis for Sustainable Water Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018) | Viewed by 49643
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydro-economic models; integrated water management; economics of agricultural; consumptive water use; climate change adaptation; engineering economics; modeling agriculture; water management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydropower; urban water use; hydro-economic models; water management
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Interests: agricultural production; dynamic programming; hydro-economic models; water management; consumptive use; economic analysis; policy analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a scarce resource, water often has economic value connected to its use. This value is employed in various use decisions, including irrigation, production proceses, sanitation, hydropower, recreation, and ecosystem services. However, water economic value often plays a decimated role in water management, even when water is reclaimed through costly storage and conveyance infrastructure, and shared among competing users. The common approach to water as an insdisputable requirement, rather than a variable and uncertain economic resource, fails to properly signal its scarcity to society, leading to inefficient use, unnecesarily large infrastructure, and lost development opportunities. Hydro-economic models provide a framework to respresent economic values of water under various uses, infrastructure, and hydrologic and environmental features within regions in a consistent manner This Special Issue provides an overview of economic water valuation and hydroeconomic models. Concepts are reinforced with case studies involving management, modeling, and analysis involving the economic value of water, and its application in improving the economic efficiency of water systems. Prospects for hydro-economic models in managing water resources in the future are discussed.
Assoc. Prof. Josue Medellin-Azuara
Prof. Guilherme F. Marqes
Prof. Amaury Tilmant
Prof. Manuel Pulido-Velazquez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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Economic value of the water
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Economic instruments for water management
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Marginal benefits of water use
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Water tarifs
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Water scarcity
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Scarcity costs
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Water resources planning and management
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Water allocation and decision making
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