Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation in India /

• Main Author: Chandrakanth, M.G (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Hydrogeology.; Mathematical optimization.; Law of the sea.; International law.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Environmental economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Optimization.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.

This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation, and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that I...