Overview
- Describes recent water pricing designs and implementation experiences in various countries
- Introduces several innovations in water pricing that have been taking place in selected countries
- Provides a comprehensive and detailed information that can be used by other countries faced with water pricing issues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 9)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (23 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Water Pricing Experiences in Selected Countries
-
Front Matter
-
-
Innovations in Water Pricing
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge. This book provides credible evidence from water pricing experiences in various countries around the world. The book chapters, written by experts in water pricing from various countries, documents the past 10 to 15 years of water pricing experiences in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Spain. The book includes also several chapters that review innovations in water pricing in various countries, such as new reform mechanisms, achieving social objectives via water pricing, achieving revenue recovery, water use efficiency and customer equity, and charging the poor.
Reviews
“This edited volume by Dinar, Pochat, and Albiac-Murillo provides the student of water policy with a wealth of information and data. … The book is a timely document. … is probably the best fit for the interested reader who is looking for the specific water policies in a particular country.” (Peter Debaere, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. LIII, December, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations
Editors: Ariel Dinar, Víctor Pochat, José Albiac-Murillo
Series Title: Global Issues in Water Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16465-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16464-9Published: 11 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38191-6Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16465-6Published: 03 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-0631
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 471
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Economic Policy, International Political Economy