Urban water management: Optimal price and investment policy under climate variability

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-192

  Hughes, Neal ^a   Hafi, Ahmed ^b   Goesch, Tim ^b  

^a Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics ^*  (Australia)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demand management; Scarcity pricing; Stochastic dynamic programming; Supply augmentation; Urban water

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE SCARCITY; URBAN AREA; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 63049085938     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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