Bøger af Ariel Dinar

A work on climate change and agriculture in Africa. It includes an assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation measures in Africa for different zones, regions, countries and farm types. It also serves as a guide to policy intervention strategies and investment in adaptation measures.

International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar demonstrate that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous examples that focus on North America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, this book considers strategies and incentives that help lessen conflict and motivate cooperation under scarcity and increased variability of water resources.

This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural production and the environment. A comprehensive modeling approach addressing both the benefits of irrigation and the potential negative effects is introduced. Physical-biological concepts are combined with economic and engineering principles to demonstrate the usefulness of the model for analyzing various water management and policy issues. Decision makers on all levels should find the modeling approach interesting and useful in the management issues from the farm to national levels.

A monograph that intends to review the main contributions of game theory in water resources over the past 70 years. It aims to compare the set of issues faced by water resources and those the sector is most likely to face in the coming future. Based on this comparison, a future research agenda and priorities will be proposed.

Explores policy interventions aimed at improving water allocation decisions and assesses the impact on regions and sectors by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical framework.

This book is about the process of water management decentralization in African countries, which is seen as a means of advancing river basin management at the lowest appropriate level.

Increasing world demands for water call for new institutions and rules to minimize economic and political conflicts. Practitioners, students, and scholars will find this work a valuable resource in water policy, environmental policy, resource economics, and civil engineering.