Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron

• 1. Dan Yaron: The Person, His Work and His Legacy.- 2. The Israel Water Economy: An Overview.- 3. Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Water by Israeli Agriculture.- 4. Wheat Response to Soil Moisture and the Optimal Irrigation Policy under Conditions of Unstable Rainfall35.- 5. A Model for the Economic Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation.- 6. Application of Dynamic Programming in Markov Chains to the Evaluation of Water Quality in Irrigation.- 7. A Model for Optimal Irrigation Scheduling with Saline Water.- 8. Optimal Allocation of Farm Irrigation Water during Peak Seasons.- 9. The Value of Information on the Response Function of Crops to Soil Salinity.- 10. A Model for the Analysis of Seasonal Aspects of Water Quality Control.- 11. Treatment Optimization of Municipal Wastewater and Reuse for Regional Irrigation.- 12. Evaluating Cooperative Game Theory in Water Resources.- 13. Adoption and Abandonment of Irrigation Technologies.- 14. An Approach to the Problem of Water Allocation to Israel and the Palestinian Entity.- 15. Placing Dan Yaron's Work in the Literature.- Appendix: Dan Yaron’s Graduate Students.

From the reviews: "This book should be read and used by environmental economists, water and environmental managers, planners, policy makers and academics. This publication is not just relevant to Israel but to professionals dealing with economic evaluation of water quality in arid regions." (The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, November 2003)