The Economics of Regional Water Quality Management

Allen V Kneese author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:19th Jan '11

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The Economics of Regional Water Quality Management cover

First Published in 2011. How clean should a stream be? And what represents an efficient way of bringing about desired conditions? These are the basic issues that confront those who are concerned with the husbandry of water resources through pollution control. This book offers form and substance to the concept of water quality management. It is unique in that it provides specific illustration of how theory and methodology of resources allocation may be employed in the formulation of rational decisions affecting water use and reuse.

'The core of Kneese's argument can be summarized as follows. Water pollution is a classic example of a 'technological external diseconomy.' By virtue of a technical link between production processes, the costs of a given action are borne by economic units other than those performing the action. Specifically, in water pollution a waste discarder pays nothing for the use of a valuable resource and imposes economic costs on other economic units downstream... The book contains many provocative and useful notions, including some well-stated counters to an extreme 'conservation' position...the book is an important contribution to resource economics, and I expect its readers will find it a sound investment...'
Irving Hoch, University of California, Berkeley

ISBN: 9781617260841

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 476g

230 pages