Economic Modelling for Water Quantity and Quality Management: A Welfare Program Approach

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2491-2511

  Zhu, Xueqin ^a   van Ierland, Ekko C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic models; Efficiency; Water management; Water pricing; Water reservation; Welfare program

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MODELS; HIGH DEMAND; MARGINAL VALUES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL RESPONSE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PRICE DIFFERENTIATION; SOCIAL WELFARE; WATER PRICING; WATER QUANTITIES; WATER USE; WELFARE PROGRAM;

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MODELING; PRICING POLICY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 84861479383     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0029-x     Document Type: Article

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