Economy-Wide Modeling of Water at Regional and Global Scales

Glyn Wittwer is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the main developers of TERM (The Enormous Regional Model, a multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model devised by Professor Mark Horridge) and was the first to develop a dynamic version of TERM. He has also created versions of TERM for China and the USA. Although he has spent much time in model development at the CoPS, his main task is applying CGE models to policy issues. In addition, he has undertaken a number of projects examining the economic impacts of urban water supply augmentation.

• Chapter 1. The Contexts for Water Modeling.- Chapter 2. Implications of Water Scarcity for Economic Growth.- Chapter 3. Analyzing Future Water Scarcity in Computable General Equilibrium Models.- Chapter 4. Beyond Water Stress: Structural Adjustment and Macroeconomic Consequences of the Emerging Water Scarcity.- Chapter 5. TERM-H2O Modeling of Droughts in Australia and California.- Chapter 6. Any Rain on Victoria Lake is Only a Drop in the Bucket: A CGE Analysis of the Effects of Water Shortages on Food Security in Uganda.- Chapter 7. The Expansion of Irrigated Agriculture in Brazil and Potential Regional Limitations.- Chapter 8. Distributing Water Between Competing Users in the Netherlands.- Chapter 9. The Economic Value of Seawater Desalination–the Case of Israel.