Economic Modeling of Water The Australian CGE Experience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wittwer, Glyn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Global Issues in Water Policy, 3
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Econometrics.; Economic policy.; Agricultural economics.; Natural resources.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Natural Resource Economics.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Agricultural Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Policy.

As anthropogenic climate change accelerates, leading both to weather unpredictability and extremes, the issue of water use and extraction has never had a higher profile. There are few places where the problems of water management are more urgent than Australia, where drought, overextraction and sali...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Practical Policy Analysis Using TERM
• PART I: The TERM Approach
• 2. The TERM Model and its Data Base
• 3. Introducing Dynamics to TERM
• PART II: Water Modeling
• 4. Water Resources Modeling: A Review
• 5. The Theory of TERM-H2O
• 6. Buybacks to Restore the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
• 7. The Economic Consequences of a Prolonged Drought in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
• 8. Urban Water Supply: A Case Study of South-east Queensland
• 9. Applying TERM-H2O to Other Countries
• Index.