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Date
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Topic
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Related Readings
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January 18, 2006
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Introduction
and overview
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- Course Outline/Syllabus
- Skim: Economics of
Water Resources: A Survey (pages 11-22 in Reader,Volume I)
- Skim: The Economic
Conception of Water (handed out in class)
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January 23,25
February 1, 6
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Industrial Water Demand 1
Industrial Water Demand 2
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- Read: Determinants of
Water Use (pages 23-34 in the Reader,VolumeI)
- Skim: Industrial
Demand - Empirical Modeling (pages 59-65 in Reader, Volume I)
- Skim: Urban
Nonresidential Water Use and Conservation (pages 66-75 in Reader, Volume
I)
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February 8
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Estimating Industrial Input
Demand-Babin
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- Read: Estimation of
Substitution Possibilities between Water and other Production Inputs
(pages 76-79 in Reader, Volume I)
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February 13
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Input-Output Analysis
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- Read: Including the
Economic Impact of Cost Paying in Regional Input-Output Analysis (pages
80-83 in Reader, Volume I)
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February 15, 22
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Residential Water Use
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- Read: Determinants of
Water Use (pages 34-45 in the Reader,VolumeI)
- Skim: Municipalities
(Gibbons) (pages 84-92 in Reader, Volume I)
- Read: Municipal Demand
for Water in Kuwait:
Methodological Issues and Empirical Results (pages 93-98 in Reader,
Volume I)
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February 27
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Block Rate Pricing
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- Read: Short- and
Long-Run Effects of Price on Municipal Water Use (pages 99-105 in
Reader, Volume I)
- Skim: The Impact of
Price on Residential Water Demand: Some New Insights (pages 106-109 in Reader,
Volume I)
- Skim: A Simultaneous
Demand Model for Block Rates (pages 110-113 in Reader, Volume 1)
- Read: Forecasting
Demand and Measuring Price Elasticity (pages 114-122 in Reader, Volume I)
- Skim: Do Residential
Water Demand Side Management Policies Measure Up? (pages 123-141 in Reader,
Volume I)
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March 1, 6, 8
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Consumer Surplus
Contingent Valuation
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- Read: Contingent
Valuation and Actual Behavior: Predicting Connections to New Water
Systems in the State of Kerala, India
(pages 142-153 in Reader, Volume 1)
- Read: Valuing Water
Supply Reliability (pages 214-219, Reader, VolumeI)
- Skim: The Economic Value of Water
(linked here)
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March 13
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Price and Rate Structures
LA Water Rate Example
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- Read: Price and Rate
Structures (pages 181-202 in Reader, Volume I)
- Read: Designing New
Water Rates for Los Angeles
(pages 203-213 in Reader, Volume 1)
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March 15, 20
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Urban Water Supply and
Privatization
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- Skim: Public vs.
Private Water Delivery: A Hedonic Approach (pages 220-225 in Reader,
Volume I)
- Read: Government
Opportunism and the Provision of Water (pages 249-266 in Reader, Volume
I)
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March 22
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Climate Change
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April 3
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Agricultural Water Use
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- Read: Crop-Water
Production Functions: Economic Implications for Arizona (pages 7-20 in Reader, Volume
II)
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April 5
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Estimating crop-water
production functions (Econometric studies)
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- Read: Crop-Water
Production Functions: Economic Implications for Arizona (pages 7-20 in Reader, Volume
II)
- Skim: Alternative
Forms for Production Functions of Irrigated Crops (pages 30-46 in Reader,
Volume II)
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April 10
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Linear Programming
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- Read: Linear
Programming Models for Estimating the Agricultural Demand Function for
Imported Water in the Pecos
River Basin (pages
220-227 in Reader, Volume II)
- Skim: A Revaluation
of Price Elasticities for Irrigation Water (pages 76-81 in Reader,
Volume II)
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April 10
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Demand for Irrigation Water
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- Read: Estimating the
Demand for Irrigation Water in the Central Valley and California (pages 21-29 in Reader, Volume II)
- Read: A Method for
Estimating the Demand for Irrigation Water (pages 71-75 in Reader, Volume
II)
- Skim: Western
Irrigation Response to Pumping Costs: A Water Demand Analysis Using
Climatic Regions (handed out in class)
- Skim: Water
Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: A Stochastic Production Frontier
Model (pages 63-70 in
Reader, Volume II)
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April 12
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Irrigation Technology
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- Read: A Reevaluation
of Price Elasticities for Irrigation Water (pages 76-81 in volume II)
- Read: Economic
Implications of Drip Irrigation (pages 82-83 in Reader, Volume II)
- Read: The Choices of
Irrigation Technologies in California
(pages 84-94, Reader, Volume II)
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April 17, 19
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Large Water Projects
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April 19
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Pricing irrigation Water
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- Read: Pricing
Subsidies and Economic Efficiency: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (pages
47-62 in volume II)
- Skim: Water Pricing
and Rent Seeking in California Agriculture (pages 119-134 in Reader,
Volume II)
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April 19
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Distributional Effects
of Subsidies
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- Read: Distributional
Welfare Implications of an Irrigation Water Subsidy (pages 103-111 in
Reader, Volume II)
- Skim: The Welfare
Economics of Price Supports in U.S. Agriculture (pages 112-118 in Reader,
Volume II)
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April 24, 26
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Groundwater
Groundwater Link 1
Groundwater Link 2
Groundwater Link 3
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- Read: California’s
Groundwater Resource (pages 184-185 in Reader, Volume II)
- Skim: An Overview of
the Law of Groundwater Management (pages 186-201 in volume II)
- Read: The Case for
Regional Groundwater Management (pages 202-205 in volume II)
- Read: Groundwater:
Focusing on the Real Issue (pages 206-219 in volume II)
- Read: Barriers to
Effective Ground-Water Management: The California Case (pages 228-233 in
Reader, Volume II)
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May 3, 8, 10
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Surface Water
Water
Markets
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- Read: Innovative
Approaches to Water Allocation: The Potential for Water Markets (pages
161-167 in volume II)
- Read: Managing Water
Scarcity: An Evaluation of Interregional Transfers (pages 168-174 in
volume II)
- Read: Why Are There
So Few Transactions Among Water Users (pages 175-183 in volume II)
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