Benchmarking in water project analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Griffin, Ronald C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES; ECONOMIC WELFARES; REVIEW PROCESSES; WATER PROJECTS; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING; WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACTS;

WATER RESOURCES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC POLICY; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; REGULATORY APPROACH;

EID: 58149104161     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006868     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Congleton, R. D. (2003), The median voter model, in Encyclopedia of Public Choice, vol. 2, edited by C. K. Rowley, and F. Schneider, pp. 382-87, Kluwer, Boston, Mass.
2. Cortner, H. J., and J. Auburg (1988), Water resources policy: Old models and new realities, Water Resour. Bull., 24, 1049-1056.
3. Eckstein, O. (1958), Water-Resource Development: The Economics of Project Evaluation, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
4. Fakhraei, S. H., R. Narayanan, and T. C. Hughes (1984), Price rigidity and quantity rationing rules under stochastic water supply, Water Resour. Res., 20, 664-670, doi:10.1029/WR020i006p00664.
5. Ferejohn, J. A. (1974), Pork Barrel Politics: Rivers and Harbors Legislation, 1947-1968, Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.
6. Ferejohn, J., and T. Page (1978), On the foundations of intertemporal choice, Am. J. Agric. Econ., 60, 269-275, doi:10.2307/1240059.
7. Griffin, R. C. (1995), On the meaning of economic efficiency in policy analysis, Land Econ., 71, 1-15, doi:10.2307/3146754.
8. Griffin, R. C. (1998), The fundamental principles of cost-benefit analysis, Water Resour. Res., 34, 2063-2071, doi:10.1029/98WR01335.
9. Haveman, R. H. (1976), The Economics of the Public Sector, 2nd ed., John Wiley, Santa Barbara, Calif.
10. Hird, J. A. (1991), The political economy of pork: Project selection at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Am. Polit. Sci. Rev., 85, 429-456, doi:10.2307/1963168.
11. Hoehn, J. P., and A. Randall (1989), Too many proposals pass the benefit cost test, Am. Econ. Rev., 79, 544-551.
12. Howe, C. W. (1971), Benefit-Cost Analysis for Water System Planning, Water Resour. Monogr., vol. 2, AGU, Washington, D. C.
13. Hufschmidt, M. M. (2000), Benefit-cost analysis: 1933-1985, Water Resour. Update, 116, 42-49.
14. Hundley, N., Jr. (2001), The Great Thirst: Californians and Water - A History, revised edition, Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, Calif.
15. Ingram, H. (1990), Water Politics: Continuity and Change, Univ. of N. M. Press, Albuquerque, N. M.
16. Ingram, H. M., D. E. Mann, G. D. Weatherford, and H. J. Cortner (1984), Guidelines for improved institutional analysis in water resources planning, Water Resour. Res., 20, 323-334, doi:10.1029/WR020i003p00323.
17. Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (1994), Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management Into the 21st Century, U. S. Gov. Print. Off., Washington, D. C.
18. Just, R. E., D. L. Hueth, and A. Schmitz (2004), The Welfare Economics of Public Policy, Edward Elgar, Northampton, Mass.
19. Kelso, M. M. (1967), The water-is-different syndrome or what is wrong with the water industry?, paper presented at Third Annual Water Resources Conference, Am Water Resour. Assoc., San Francisco, Calif. (Available at http://ron-griffin.tamu.edu/reprints/kelso1967.pdf)
20. Mishan, E. J. (1976), Cost-Benefit Analysis, Praeger, New York.
21. Moynihan, D. P. (1983), Foreward, in Who Runs the Rivers?: Dams and Decisions in the New West, edited by Barbara T. Andrews and Marie Sansone, pp. 1-7, Stanford Environ. Law Soc., Stanford, Calif.
22. National Research Council (1999), New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Natl. Acad., Washington, D. C.
23. Regan, M. M., and E. C. Weitzell (1947), Economic evaluation of soil and water conservation measures and programs, J. Farm Econ., 29, 1275-1294, doi:10.2307/1232759.
24. Rucker, R. R., and P. V. Fishback (1983), The Federal Reclamation Program: An analysis of rent-seeking behavior, in Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by T. L. Anderson, pp. 45-81, Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass.
25. Sen, A. K. (1979), Collective Choice and Social Welfare, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
26. U. S. Congress (2007), Water Resources Development Act of 2007, Public Law 110-114, 110th Congress, 1st Session, Nov. 2007.
27. U. S. Water Resources Council, (1973), Principles and standards for planning water and related land resources, Fed. Regist., 38(174), 24,778-24,862.
28. U. S. Water Resources Council, (1980), Principles and standards for water and related land resources planning (level C); final rule, Fed. Regist., 45(190), 64,365-64,400.
29. U. S. Water Resources Council (1983), Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resource Implementation Studies, U. S. Gov. Print. Off., Washington, D. C.
30. Waelti, J. J. (1985), Cost sharing for federal water projects: Trends and implications, Water Resour. Res., 21, 153-158, doi:10.1029/ WR021i002p00153.
31. Weitzman, M. L. (2001), Gamma discounting, Am. Econ. Rev., 91, 260-271.
32. Wolf, C., Jr. (1979), A theory of nonmarket failure: Framework for implementation analysis, J. Law Econ., 22, 107-139, doi:10.1086/466935.
33. Young, R. A. (1996), Measuring Economic Benefits for Water Investments and Policies, World Bank, Washington, D. C.