Water management with water conservation, infrastructure expansions, and source variability in Jordan

Rosenberg, David E.; Howitt, Richard E.; Lund, Jay R.

doi:10.1029/2007wr006519

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“…Hydroeconomics and hydroeconomic modeling, on the other hand, are aimed at either optimizing the economic objectives of a water system, such as conjunctive use of groundwater and infrastructure, 9 cost-effective environmental flows in the context of binational river management, 10 and optimal water conservation and infrastructure expansion. 11 In these ways, hydroeconomics and hydrosociology operationalize economic concepts and societal impact assessment, respectively, by incorporating them at the heart of water management. 8,12,13 By doing so, these approaches respond to 'what if' scenario-based questions, such as what would be the effect of salinity on the economic value of water, 14 or what would be the societal impact of infrastructure expansion, such as the building of new dams.…”

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Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

2016

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Socio-hydrology was introduced 4 years ago into the scientific lexicon, and elicited several reactions about the meaning and originality of the concept. However, there has also been much activity triggered by the original paper, including further commentaries that clarified the definitions, and several papers that acted on the definitions, and through these activities further clarified and illustrated the meaning and usefulness of socio-hydrology for understanding coupled human-water systems and to assist with sustainable water management. This paper restates the case for socio-hydrology by articulating the need to consider the two-way feedbacks between human and water systems in order to explain puzzles, paradoxes, and unintended consequences that arise in the context of water management, and to suggest ways to avoid or overcome these challenges. The paper then presents a critical review of past research on socio-hydrology through the prism of historical, comparative, and process socio-hydrology, documenting both the progress made and the challenges faced. Much of the work done so far has involved studies of socio-hydrological systems in spatially isolated domains (e.g., river basins), and phenomena that involve emergent patterns in the time domain. The modeling studies so far have involved testing hypotheses about how these temporal patterns arise. An important feature that distinguishes socio-hydrology from other related fields is the importance of allowing human agency (e.g., socioeconomics, technology, norms, and values) to be endogenous to the systems. This paper articulates the need to extend sociohydrology to explore phenomena in space and in space-time, as the world becomes increasingly globalized and human-water systems become highly interconnected. The endogenization of human agency, in terms of values and norms, technology, economics, and trade must now be extended to space and to spacetime. This is a necessity, and a challenge, for water sustainability, but presents exciting opportunities for further research. © 2016 The Authors. WIREs Water published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Water 2017, 4:e1193. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1193 INTRODUCTIONH umans have been exploiting the Earth's natural resources at an accelerating pace ever since intense economic activity was triggered by the industrial revolution. This exploitation of the Earth's natural resources facilitated, and was in turn facilitated by, technological innovations. These innovations included extraction of iron ore, the steam engine, and faster ships, railroads, and several other means This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.subsequently that connected people worldwide through trade. Concerted ambitions of humans in different parts of the world with their unique niches, now connected through trade, fuelled the...

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Section: Emergence Of Socio-hydrologymentioning

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Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

2016

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“…As the policy agenda moved towards adaptive management and demand‐side solutions, models attempted to incorporate the value of flexibility to uncertain future conditions (Dixit et al ; Erlenkotter et al ). Such models have evaluated the use of domestic retrofit programmes (Groves ; Lund ; Rosenberg et al ; Rubinstein and Ortolano ), dynamic pricing mechanisms (Hughes et al ), and licence trading mechanisms (Adler ) as a means of postponing or avoiding the costs of supply augmentation while increasing flexibility in resource planning.…”

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A Theoretical Walk through the Political Economy of Urban Water Resource Management

Walker

2014

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The political economy of urban water management demands the interrogation of a highly socialised and engineered space. Many approaches are available to the researcher, yet they are often based on their own claims concerning the nature of society and space, which are contradictory and incommensurate with the next. This makes a synthesis of theory problematic, suggesting an 'either/or' decision to the researcher. This paper provides a critical genealogy of theoretical approaches to the political economy of urban water management and a framework through which their synthesis may be discussed. It employs a critical realist philosophy, mapping each approach to its respective ontological and epistemic grounding. A metaphorical 'walk' is then taken across the resulting map in order to provide a coherent and logical survey of theory. Finally, critical realism is employed to argue that struggles to synthesise theory are rooted in their competing ontological claims. Critical realism and in particular Bob Jessop's Strategic Relational Approach are assessed as means of reconciling tensions uncovered during the walk.

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“…[2003]) and even trade channels. For example, Rosenberg et al. [2008] address the benefits of conservation in a model, which introduces stochastic supply and links multiple water users while allowing for infrastructure expansion and conjunctive ground and surface water use.…”

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Economics and the Modeling of Water Resources and Policies

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Michelsen

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Natural Resource Modeling

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Over the last 25 years, economic water policy models have evolved in concept, theoretical and technical methods, scope and application to address a host of water demand, supply, and management policy questions. There have been a number of theoretical and empirical advances over this period, particularly related to estimation of nonmarket, public good water‐related values involving different methods of valuation. We discuss modeling advances including modeling multiple, competing demands, types of incentives and technologies and behavioral responses, incorporation of groundwater and other supply alternatives, integration of institutional factors, and increasing attention to system‐wide impacts. The largest changes in hydroeconomic policy models have been the integration of the individual demand and supply components, inclusion of environmental values, incorporation of governance and institutional conditions (laws, regulations and policies), and expansion to river basin and even interposing scales of analysis. Important areas of future hydroeconomic model advances will be the use of genetic and neurological based algorithms for solving dynamic, stochastic problems, reconstruction of hydrological and economic relationships for remotely sensed data, and the expansion of models to understand and address transboundary water resource economic, hydrologic, environmental and institutional policy, and interdependencies.

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Water management with water conservation, infrastructure expansions, and source variability in Jordan

Cited by 40 publications

References 21 publications

Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

A Theoretical Walk through the Political Economy of Urban Water Resource Management

Economics and the Modeling of Water Resources and Policies

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