Price discovery and distribution of water rights linking upstream tree plantations to downstream water markets: Experimental results

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 810-827

  Nordblom, Thomas L ^a,c   Reeson, Andrew F ^b   Finlayson, John D ^c   Hume, Iain H ^a,c   Whitten, Stuart M ^b   Kelly, Jason A ^d  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d M081 ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Coase; Endowment effect; Environmental services; Experimental economics; Irrigation; Stock domestic; Tree plantations; Urban; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055217492     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.085     Document Type: Article

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