Integrated hydro-economic modelling: Approaches, key issues and future research directions

Brouwer, Roy; Hofkes, M.W.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.02.009

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“…Conventional water resources management has been dominated historically by engineers and the 'hard-path' approach focusing on infrastructure as the dominant solution (Milly et al 2007;Brouwer and Hofkes 2008;Savenije and Van der Zaag 2008). While useful in many regards, this approach addresses the physical water sector in isolation and social factors are generally considered as exogenous inputs, thus neglecting the dynamic interaction and feedback between physical and social processes (Giacomoni et al 2013).…”

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Evolution of newspaper coverage of water issues in Australia during 1843–2011

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Western

et al. 2014

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News accounts both reflect and influence public opinion through their noted 'agenda-setting' capability. We examined newspaper articles in Australia's The Sydney Morning Herald from 1843 to 2011 to observe the evolution of media coverage on water issues related to water resources management. The results showed that water supply-related articles have dominated the reporting of water issues since 1843. This emphasis is reflected in the institutions involved and their related policy/management initiatives, as well as the themes of the articles. Extreme events such as flooding and drought have punctuated the historical record of reports on water issues. An economic development-driven tone was overwhelmingly predominant in newspaper articles (85 % of the total); however, there has been a marked decline in the importance of development-driven tone relative to environmental-sustainability oriented tone of articles since 1994. People from academia and NGOs were rarely quoted. Inclusion of wider range stakeholders should be considered as a strategic break-through and natural events should be considered as an ''opportunity'' to change public opinion on water issues for environmental sustainability.

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Evolution of newspaper coverage of water issues in Australia during 1843–2011

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Western

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“…However, important feedback effects from the water system to the economy and from the economy to the water system are often missing in existing economic models (Brouwer and Hofkes 2008). Batten (2007) identified the following challenges for economists.…”

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Economic Modelling for Water Quantity and Quality Management: A Welfare Program Approach

Zhu

Ierland

2012

Water Resour Manage

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This paper presents an integrated economic model which is able to explicitly address both water quantity and quality. We use a welfare program to maximize social welfare subject to the economic and ecological constraints, where interactions, emissions and environmental impacts are incorporated. Such a welfare program can provide the marginal values of commodities and therefore can price water by means of shadow pricing. The optimal solution to a specified program provides the optimal response strategies, i.e. the efficient allocation of resources in the economy including water use and the efficient level of water quality. We illustrate the mechanism in a numerical example and show, as an example, how we can achieve efficiency by reserving water in the high season for times of high demand in the low season and by introducing price differentiation between the two seasons.

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“…Zhu et al, 2007;Jonkman et al, 2008). In many of such models, economic analysis of flood protection measures is carried out at the expense of hydrological detail, while social and technological learning are rarely addressed (Brouwer and Hofkes, 2008). On the contrary, in Geographical Information System (GIS)-based models, the flood event is described in more detail and geographically linked to a set of financial and economic assets (e.g.…”

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Evolutionary modelling of the macro-economic impacts of catastrophic flood events

Safarzynska

Brouwer

Hofkes

2013

Ecological Economics

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Integrated hydro-economic modelling: Approaches, key issues and future research directions

Cited by 152 publications

References 11 publications

Evolution of newspaper coverage of water issues in Australia during 1843–2011

Evolution of newspaper coverage of water issues in Australia during 1843–2011

Economic Modelling for Water Quantity and Quality Management: A Welfare Program Approach

Evolutionary modelling of the macro-economic impacts of catastrophic flood events

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