Rivers of gold
Subtitle: designing markets to allocate water in California
By: Brent M. Haddad
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- California; Water-supply -- Political aspects -- California; Water rights -- California; Federal-state controversies -- United States
Description: "The movement to implement market-based approaches to allocating water is gaining ground across California and in other western states. In Rivers of Gold, Brent M. Haddad explains water markets and the economic theory undergirding them. It is the first book to provide detailed case studies of water market transactions and the institutional design issues associated with them.

It will be essential reading for water resource professionals and resource economists, as well as for students and scholars of environmental policy, environmental economics, and resource economics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index