Water

Security, Economics and Governance

R Quentin Grafton, Jamie Pittock, Maree Tait, Chris White (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

580 Seiten

2013 | New edition
Tilde University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7346-1141-3 (ISBN)

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Highlights intractable, unresolved issues and discusses ways in which information and different conceptual approaches can be used to discuss them more effectively. Readers will gain an overview of the wide range of controversies that together make up the international debate about water reform. They will also gain a good understanding of potential solutions.

Water: Security, Economics and Governance highlights intractable, unresolved issues and discusses ways in which information and different conceptual approaches can be used to discuss them more effectively.Readers will gain an overview of the wide range of controversies that together make up the international debate about water reform. They will also gain a good understanding of potential solutions.

R. Quentin Grafton is Director of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, an economic research unit within the Australian Government Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism BREE. He is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, and is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In April 2010, Quentin was appointed Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He currently serves as Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, the International Journal of Environmental Economics, Environment and Development Economics, and Economics Research International. He is also the Chief Editor of the blog The Global Water Forum. Quentin has published more than 80 scholarly articles in some of the world's leading journals in economics and the life sciences, more than 25 chapters in books, four edited books, and seven authored books.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2013
Zusatzinfo	90 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Prahan, VIC
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-7346-1141-2 / 0734611412
ISBN-13	978-0-7346-1141-3 / 9780734611413
Zustand	Neuware