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Allocating Water Resources For Agricultural And Economic Development In The Volta River Basin
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Book Synopsis Allocating Water Resources for Agricultural and Economic Development in the Volta River Basin by : Patrick Obeng-Asiedu
Download or read book Allocating Water Resources for Agricultural and Economic Development in the Volta River Basin written by Patrick Obeng-Asiedu and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshwater is needed in every aspect of life and is probably the most fundamental resource in sustaining life. It has been and will remain a key determinant of population growth and distribution, social and political organization and the quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits as well as the tradeoffs and complementarities across water using sectors in the Volta River basin, notably Burkina Faso and Ghana. The model used was coded in the modeling language of the General Algebraic Modeling System. The author points out that profits per unit of water and hectare vary by crop and that liberalizing crop patterns could increase farmer profits from crop production. The study shows that increasing irrigated areas through inefficient water use systems in the basin will effectively render un-operational, the small hydropower projects in Burkina Faso and reduce the amount of power that the Akosombo reservoir can generate per month.
Book Synopsis The Volta River Basin by : Timothy O. Williams
Download or read book The Volta River Basin written by Timothy O. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced. The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability, the demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.
Author :Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :202 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis Economics of Transferring Water by : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
Download or read book Economics of Transferring Water written by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :628 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Water Resources and Economic Development of the West ... Report by : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
Download or read book Water Resources and Economic Development of the West ... Report written by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economics and Public Policy in Water Resource Development by : Stephen C. Smith
Download or read book Economics and Public Policy in Water Resource Development written by Stephen C. Smith and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1964 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development Publisher :New York : United Nations ISBN 13 : Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Water Resources Planning to Meet Long-term Demand by : United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development
Download or read book Water Resources Planning to Meet Long-term Demand written by United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Water Economics and Institutions by : Kimberly Burnett
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Water Economics and Institutions written by Kimberly Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing scarcity of freshwater worldwide brings to light the need for sound water resource modeling and policy analysis. While a solid foundation has been established for many specific water management problems, combining those methods and principles in a unified framework remains an ongoing challenge. This Handbook aims to expand the scope of efficient water use to include allocation of sources and quantities across uses and time, as well as integrating demand-management with supply-side substitutes. Socially efficient water use does not generally coincide with private decisions in the real world, however. Examples of mechanisms designed to incentivize efficient behavior are drawn from agricultural water use, municipal water regulation, and externalities linked to water resources. Water management is further complicated when information is costly and/or imperfect. Standard optimization frameworks are extended to allow for coordination costs, games and cooperation, and risk allocation. When operating efficiently, water markets are often viewed as a desirable means of allocation because a market price incentivizes users to move resources from low to high value activities. However, early attempts at water trading have run into many obstacles. Case studies from the United States, Australia, Europe, and Canada highlight the successes and remaining challenges of establishing efficient water markets.
Author :Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :191 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (483 download)
Book Synopsis Water Resources and Economic Development of the West by : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
Download or read book Water Resources and Economic Development of the West written by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Water Resource Planning and Development by : Margaret S. Petersen
Download or read book Water Resource Planning and Development written by Margaret S. Petersen and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :490 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Water Resources and Economic Development of the West by : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
Download or read book Water Resources and Economic Development of the West written by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference Proceedings, Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development of the Western Agricultural Economic Research Council.
Book Synopsis Strategic Water Management: International Experience and Practices – Vol. II – Basin Water Allocation Planning by :
Download or read book Strategic Water Management: International Experience and Practices – Vol. II – Basin Water Allocation Planning written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Water Needs For The Future by : University of Denver. College of Law
Download or read book Water Needs For The Future written by University of Denver. College of Law and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977-12-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Price of Water by : Stephen Merrett
Download or read book The Price of Water written by Stephen Merrett and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of the Price of Water expands on the coverage of the first edition and ambitiously develops the theme of the proper management of river basins, both with respect to the control of rivers’ water quality and the defence of their quantitative flows from source to sea. Using the hydrosocial balance concept of the first edition, and the grand theory of catchment water deficits, a remarkable breakthrough is made in understanding how river flows are destroyed by human society. Drawing on extensive empirical research into the Kafue River Basin and the Thames River Basin, it is shown that the exhaustion of river flows that we see on a world-wide scale can be explained by just five measurable ‘drivers’ to basin surplus and basin deficit. Moreover, by specifying the key drivers and measuring their value, the basis is provided for economic, engineering and land management strategies that will reverse river basin destruction. Bringing together 20 papers previously published in refereed journals, The Price of Water provides information that many readers would not otherwise have been able to access to through their professional and academic libraries. The scope of the book is broad, dealing with a diverse range of subjects such as regional and catchment planning and integrated water resources management. Topics considered include: both water quantities and qualities drought management the "virtual water" controversy farmers water-rights the economic demand for water the design of abstraction charges the cost and use of irrigation water the design of effluent charges the "willingness-to-pay" methodology catchment water deficits water resource impacts of new property construction water leakage impact on river basins managing water quality within EC directives.
Book Synopsis Water Resource Conflicts and International Security by : Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Download or read book Water Resource Conflicts and International Security written by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Resource Conflicts and International Security: A Global Perspective is an edited collection by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi which analyzes the increasing global demand for water in economic and social development, and the dire need to efficiently manage this vital natural resource, particularly in water-scarce countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Several environmental- and human-induced factors, such as urbanization, industrialization, climate change, and agricultural needs, have created a near-crisis situation in many countries. Subsequently, there is an increasingly intense competition to utilize available water resources in these most heavily-affected regions; transboundary rivers, lakes, and streams which are shared by more than one country pose potential for political conflict, armed conflict, and, in the best of cases, cooperation. The contributors of Water Resource Conflicts and International Security present ten case studies in seven chapters, highlighting the competition between countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In his conclusion, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi suggests several policy measures that governments may implement in order to minimize the potential for conflict.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta sub-Basin by : Eric Antwi Ofosu
Download or read book Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta sub-Basin written by Eric Antwi Ofosu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa has an irrigation potential of about 42 million hectares of which only 17% is developed. Despite several investments in irrigation the growth is slow. This study aims at helping to achieve sustainable irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa, through gaining a better understanding of productive irrigation water use and effective management of irrigation development. The study is conducted in the White Volta sub-basin specifically in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso which have been experiencing rapid irrigation development since the mid 1990s. The study identified growing markets for irrigated products as an important driving force behind the expansion of irrigation which has given rise to new technologies. The new technologies have spread because they gave farmers direct control over water sources. These new technologies allow relatively small farm sizes which can be adequately managed by the surveyed farmers. As a result high productivities are achieved. The hydrological impact of upscaling irrigation in the sub-basin is sustainable and will maximize the overall benefits derived from water resources in the Volta Basin.
Book Synopsis An ex-post impact assessment of IFPRI's GRP22 program, Water Research Allocation by : Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Download or read book An ex-post impact assessment of IFPRI's GRP22 program, Water Research Allocation written by Bennett, Jeffrey W. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of the International Food Policy Research Institutes (IFPRIs) research program that focuses on water resource issues is reviewed for the period 19942010 around the three themes that constitute the program: global modeling, river basin modeling, and institutions. The IFPRI water team has been involved in leading-edge research in a number of dimensions: it has focused on analysis at varying geographic scales; the work has been truly interdisciplinary by engaging economics with biophysical science and other social sciences; and research outputs have been innovative in advancing institutional analysis and water pricing and in policy measures addressing the complexities of water supply management. In the research tasks, IFPRIs water team actively collaborated with a wide range of researchers from within the CGIAR network, national research institutes, and universities. Within the team, a largely stable group of leaders has been responsible for the professional development of a substantial cohort of junior staff who have moved onto successful careers elsewhere. The output of the program has been prolific and prominent in academic, policy, and development communities. The approach taken is to review selected publications from the themes; assess the quality of the journals in which papers have been published; and evaluate the performance, on average, of researchers in the program. In addition, surveys of stakeholders were carried out, and three specific projects were subjected to detailed review. The assessment demonstrated the high regard in which the program research outputs and researchers are held. The IFPRI water team has been remarkably productive throughout the 16 years considered, working on issues that are of high relevance to policy and producing work that has largely been cutting edge. However, impacts generated by individual projects were not consistently or readily identifiable. To maximize the benefits of this performance and to overcome challenges associated with securing more outcomes, this report recommends that a more coordinated approach be taken to develop the research project portfolio. This would involve better targeting of projects to policy objectives through a more systematic review of research demand forces and improved integration of research work with policy development processes. The latter in particular requires the development of a sense of research project ownership within the policy circles the research is designed to influence. More effort in the development of in-country research partnerships can aid this process as local researchers can act as champions within local policy circles. Where government agencies have a research function, their integration into the partnerships is recommended. Avoidance of completing research projects in a policy vacuum is critical but requires both advanced planning of each research project as well as constant adaptation of the work plan to (often rapidly) evolving policy contexts. To achieve project impacts beyond the immediacy of the specific case study context, a more targeted and coordinated publication strategy should be developed in light of changing publication technology. Project webpages within the IFPRI website, with readily downloadable reports, are useful during the implementation of each project and more formal papers should be targeted for publication in high-impact factor technical journals with parallel papers prepared for more policy-oriented journals that have high circulations.
Book Synopsis Water Transfers in the West by : National Research Council
Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.
