Handbook of Water Economics
这本手册由41位经济学家合著，系统梳理了水经济学的当前研究前沿，涵盖制度、可持续性、气候变化影响评估等主题，适合水资源管理者和经济学者参考。
The Handbook of Water Economics aims to comprehensively depict the state-of-the-art of water economics. To accomplish this, a consortium of 41 qualified economists outline current research conducted in this field. Differently to the Handbook of Water Economics by Collin Green that gives an introduction to the field of water economics, the presented Handbook of Water Economics by Dinar and Schwabe focuses on current issues in water economics. The handbook, hence, presents methods that water economists often apply and the role that water economics plays in water resources management, use and policy. The Handbook of Water Economics consists of 25 chapters that are divided into 8 parts covering a variety of topics, such as the role of institutions and the role of experimental economics. It starts with a very brief historical outline of water economics. A synthesis of the current state-of-the art is, unfortunately, missing. The first part outlines concepts and theoretical foundations. It addresses institutions and water, the concept of sustainability economics, and gives a review of methods for assessing economic impacts from climate change on water resources. A chapter on institutions concludes that a society's ability to successfully manage water resources depends on institutions. Success consequently depends on institutions that are devised to overcome the challenges posed by water's unique characteristics and diverse, often conflicting, private and public uses. Another chapter on sustainability economics of groundwater use shows that declining natural resources stocks may well be consistent with sustainability. In the fourth chapter, economic impacts from climate change on water resources are assessed and two approaches are highlighted. An hydro-economic modelling approach offers the possibility of integrating results across competing sectors and the capacity to study specific adaptive responses, whereas the data are relatively costly. A Ricardian approach uses cross-sectional statistical models.