The Economics Of Evaluating Water Projects

Author : Per-Olov Johansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642276695
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Evaluating Water Projects written by Per-Olov Johansson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services. How should decisions be made between water use for electricity generation or for environmental and recreational benefits? The authors develop a simple general equilibrium model of a small open economy which is used to derive a cost-benefit rule that can be used to assess projects that divert water from electricity generation to recreational and other uses (or vice versa). The cost-benefit rule is then applied to the specific case of a proposed change at a Swedish hydropower plant. The book provides a manual for the evaluation of river regulations which can easily be replicated in other studies.

Author : Otto Eckstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water-resource Development written by Otto Eckstein and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald C. Griffin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262034042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Resource Economics, second edition written by Ronald C. Griffin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts. Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this text offers a comprehensive development of water resource economics that is accessible to engineers and natural scientists as well as to economists. The goal is to build a practical platform for understanding and performing economic analysis using both theoretical and empirical tools. Familiarity with microeconomics or natural resource economics is helpful, but all the economics needed is presented and developed progressively in the text. The book focuses on the scarcity of water quantity (rather than on water quality). The author presents the economic theory of resource allocation, recognizing the peculiarities imposed by water, and then goes on to treat a range of subjects including conservation, groundwater depletion, water law, policy analysis, cost–benefit analysis, water marketing, privatization, and demand and supply estimation. Added features of this updated edition include a new chapter on water scarcity risk (with climate change and necessary risk tools introduced progressively) and new risk-attentive material elsewhere in the text; sharper treatment of block rates and pricing doctrine; expanded attention to contemporary literature and issues; and new appendixes on input–output analysis, water footprinting and virtual water, and cost allocation. Each chapter ends with a summary and exercises.

Author : Per-Olov Johansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642367909
Total Pages : 71 pages
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Download or read book Evaluating Water Projects written by Per-Olov Johansson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should more water be diverted to or from electricity generation? This timely question is addressed in this short volume. Two different approaches are introduced and compared: The first is a cost-benefit analysis, examining the case of re-regulating a Swedish hydropower plant in which water is diverted from electricity generation to the downstream dryway. The proposed scenario generates environmental and other benefits, but comes at a cost in terms of lost electricity. The second study introduces an approach very different from the one used in conventional cost-benefit analysis, and provides a set of measures designed so that most, if not all, affected parties will be better off. Thus, in contrast to a conventional cost-benefit analysis, which draws on hypothetical compensation measures, the new approach envisages actual compensation. Comparing two different theoretical frameworks on the basis of a real-world case, this study can be seen as a manual that can be used to evaluate reasonably small re-regulation of rivers.

Author : Per-Olov Johansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642276709
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Evaluating Water Projects written by Per-Olov Johansson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services. How should decisions be made between water use for electricity generation or for environmental and recreational benefits? The authors develop a simple general equilibrium model of a small open economy which is used to derive a cost-benefit rule that can be used to assess projects that divert water from electricity generation to recreational and other uses (or vice versa). The cost-benefit rule is then applied to the specific case of a proposed change at a Swedish hydropower plant. The book provides a manual for the evaluation of river regulations which can easily be replicated in other studies.

Author : United States. Federal Inter-agency River Basin Committee. Subcommittee on Evaluation Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proposed Practices for Economic Analysis of River Basin Projects written by United States. Federal Inter-agency River Basin Committee. Subcommittee on Evaluation Standards and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Economic Evaluation of Federal Water Resource Development Projects written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Water Resources Council. Special Task Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Procedures for Evaluation of Water and Related Land Resource Projects written by United States. Water Resources Council. Special Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Water Resources Council (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Author : Maria Arlene M. Tadle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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