Models for Optimal Water Management and Conflict Resolution
- Resumen
- Actual markets only perform efficiently, if they are competitive, with many small buyers and sellers. Further, all social benefits and costs must be private ones. These conditions are generally violated in the case of water markets. But, by thinking about water values rather than simply water quantities, optimizing models can be built which do achieve efficiency. The WAS model is such a tool. It maximizes the net benefits from available water, given demand and supply characteristics and infrastructure, either actual or potential. Further, WAS permits the users to express special values for water by imposing water policies implicitly expressing such values. Among the outputs are of WAS are ¿shadow values¿ for each location, giving the extent to which net benefits would increase system-wide if there were an additional cubic meter of water freely available at that location. These provide the same guidance as do actual prices in competitive markets. <br/> WAS can be used as a powerful tool for water management and infrastructure planning. It can also be used to examine the system-wide costs and benefits of particular water policies. But, because water ownership can be expressed in money terms, with WAS permitting the user to express social values, WAS is also a tool for the resolution of water disputes for the benefit of all the parties involved.
- Autor
- Fisher, Franklin M.; Berkowitz Carlton, Jane; Carlton, Dennis William
- Palabras Clave
- Calidad del agua, Construcciones hidráulicas, Competencias jurisdiccionales
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- Ponencia ( 14 pag, 342 Kb )
- Presentación
Otros Documentos relacionados:
- Documento Final Semanas Temáticas
- Conclusiones Tribuna del Agua
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