Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries

Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Research Professor, Technical University of Denmark, President, European Association of Environmental Resource Economists, Chair, World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, Chair, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Global Climate Hub, the late Panos Pashardes, formerly Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Timothy M. Swanson, Centre for International Environmental Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland and Anastasios Xepapadeas, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

• Contents: Introduction Part I: Principles: Water Management Issues Surveyed 1. The Political Economy Context of Water-Pricing Reforms 2. The Political Economy of Institutional Reforms in Pakistan’s Irrigation Sector Part II: Problems: Case Studies of Special Difficulties in Developing Countries 3. Selection Through Water Markets 4. Willingness to Pay for Migratory Species Preservation: The Premium for Co-operative Agreements and Implications for Policy 5. Economic Instruments for Water Management in the Presence of Positive Externalities: The Case of Rice-based Irrigation in Sri Lanka 6. A New Methodology for Measuring Groundwater Scarcity: Theory and Application 7. Contrasting Different Methodologies to Deriving Natural Resource Scarcity Rents: Some Results from Cyprus Part III: Policies: A Case Study of Policy Making for Water Management in Cyprus 8. The Watershed Economics Management Approach: An Application to Cyprus 9. Water Management in Cyprus through a Decision-Support System 10. A Critical Examination of the New Integrated European Water Protection Regime Index

'This book contains a good collection of articles about the economics and political economy of water management. . . This theoretical work is innovative and worth exploring especially when it is put in the context of problems and policies of developing countries. . . it is indeed a worthwhile collection for those dealing with natural resource management, in particular with water management.'