Water as an economic good and water tariff design Comparison between IBT-con and IRT-cap

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 209-217

  Liu, Junguo ^a   Savenije, Hubert H G ^a   Xu, Jianxin ^b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b NChina Instof Water Conservancy   (China)

Author keywords

Economic good; Increasing block tariffs; Increasing rate tariffs; Water tariff

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EARTH (PLANET); ECONOMICS;

INCREASED BLOCK TARIFFS (IBT);

WATER RESOURCES;

ECONOMICS; TARIFF STRUCTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 0037541577     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7065(03)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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