Water Economics and Policy
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 (30 June 2017) | Viewed by 182417
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural and resource economics; water management; water policy; multicriteria decision theory; environmental policy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: agricultural economics; agricultural water economics; mathematical programming models
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The objective of this Special Issue is to improve knowledge on the use of economic instruments for water policy and evaluation of the impact of water policy implementation. Contributions will be of great value for environmental agencies, administrators and regulators, and will benefit society as a whole by means of identifying ways of maximizing social utility of water resources allocation and mechanisms to implement economic instruments and methodologies. Discussion will be faciliated regarding water policies tackling drought, climatic change and overextraction in most of the arid regions of the world, such as the revision of the EU Water Framework Directive planned for 2019.
Dr. Julio Berbel
Dr. Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín
Dr. Julia Martin-Ortega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- economic analysis of water use and scenarios of climatic change
- cost recovery, water pricing, environmental and resource cost and environmental taxation, finances of water policy
- wider economic impacts: economic growth, innovation and market and job creation generation
- CBA (Cost-benefit analysis)
- CEA (Cost-effectiveness analysis)
- Water Energy Food Nexus
- water markets
- insurance
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