Overview

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with optimization. A smart market can reduce the transaction costs of water trading, while improving the environmental outcomes. The authors show why a smart market for water is needed, how it would work, and how to implement it.  The smart market described here uses a hydrology simulation of the water resource, user bids via the internet, and mathematical optimization, to maximize the economic value of water while meeting all environmental constraints.  The book provides the background to understand the smart market for water, and the detail to help the reader start working on its application. The book explores topics such as: Why water should be more expensive near sensitive environmental locations, Ways to set initial allocations of water rights, The role of regulatory oversight, The prerequisites of a water market, and How to counter objections to water markets.  The culmination of a decade of investigation, this book combines explanation, examples, and detail to inform policymakers, large water users, environmental organizations, researchers, and a thirsty public.

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Author:   John F. Raffensperger ,  Mark W. Milke
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Volume:   12
Weight:   5.903kg
ISBN:  

9783319855431

ISBN 10:   3319855433
Pages:   313
Publication Date:   25 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Water allocation: the joint problem of interaction and transaction costs.- 2. Water allocation approaches: theory and practice.- 3. How water flows, how it is modelled, and how we optimize it.- 4. Introduction to smart markets.- 5. A prototype common pool smart market for water.- 6. Case studies (much more to come if space permits).- 7. Water markets in a stochastic world.- 8. Establishing a market.- 9. Initial allocation of rights.- 10. Expectations for participants-traders.- 11. Market behavior.- 12. Critical perspectives on water trading.- 13. Concluding perspectives.- 14. Appendix: outline of market-clearing code.- 15. References.

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