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  • Chapter 1 - The State of Water Resources and the Need for a Comprehensive Perspective

  • Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside, Yacov Tsur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book:
    The Economics of Water Resources
    Published online:
    21 April 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2021, pp 8-44

  • Summary

    The chapter presents temporal and spatial trends of main water indicators. Attention is given to the interaction between water resources and society over time in various parts of the world, the effects of climate change on the available water supplies, the technological means available to cope with water scarcity and deteriorated quality, the institutional and legal means developed in different countries, and the types of decisions needed to manage water resources. As such, the chapter motivates the book’s structure and contents.