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Water Conservation and Marketing Bibliography

Professor Tietenberg at Colby College, Maine, USA  has compiled a list of water supply and water quality publications focused on marketing:  See Others.  

Annotated Listing of Books and Journals

Water Markets: An Annotated Bibliography (Requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader) by Phyllis Park Saarinen  and Gary D. Lynne (First prepared in 1993.  Annotations being added as the literature evolves).

Other Journal Papers and Books not Currently in the Annotated List

Armitage, R. M., W.L. Nieuwoudt, and G.R. Backeberg. (1999). Establishing tradable water rights – case-studies of two irrigation districts in South Africa. Water SA 25(3), 301-310.

Bauer, C.J. (1997). Bringing water markets down to earth – the political economy of water rights in Chile, 1976-95. World Development 25(5), 639-656.

Berrens, R.P., A.K. Bohara, H. Jenkinssmith, C.L. Silva, P. Ganderton, and D. Brookshire. (1998). A joint investigation of public support and public values – case of instream flows in New Mexico. Ecological Economics 27(2), 189-203.

Berrens, R.P., P. Ganderton and C.L. Silva. (1996). Valuing the protection of minimum instream flows in New Mexico. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 21(2), 294-308.

Bjornlund, H. and J. McKay. (1998). Factors affecting water prices in a rural water market – a South Australian experience. Water Resources Research 34(6), 1563-1570.

Brennan, D. and M. Scoccimarro. (1999).  Issues in defining property rights to improve Australian Water Markets, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 4391), 69-89.

Brill, E., E. Hochman and D. Zilberman. (1997). Allocation and pricing at the water district level. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79(3), 952-963.

Carriker, G.L. (1998). Advances in the economics of environmental resources – marginal cost rate design and wholesale water markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(4),880-881.

Chan, A.H. (1990). Rural community values in groundwater marketing. Journal of Economic Issues 24(2), 463-472.

Charney, A.H. and G.C. Woodard. (1990). Socioeconomic impacts of water farming on rural areas of origin in Arizona. American Journal of Agricultural Ecnomics 72(5), 1193-1199.

Colby, B.G., K. Crandall and D.B. Bush. (1993). Water right transactions—market values and price dispersion. Water Resources Research 29(6), 1565-1572.  

Collinge, R.A. (1994). Transferable rate entitlemenets – the overlooked opportunity in municipal water pricing. Public Finance Quarterly 22(1), 46-64.

Connor, J.D. and G.M. Perry. (1999). Analyzing the potential for water quality externalities as the result of market water transfers. Water Resources Research 35(9), 2833-2839.

Crane, R. (1994). Water markets, market reform and the urban poor – results from Jakarta, Indonesia. World Development 22(1),71-83.

Dudley, N.J. (1992). Water allocation by markets, common property and capacity sharing – companions or competitors. Natural Resources Journal 32(4), 757-778.

Easter, K.W. and R. Hearne. (1995). Water markets and decentralized water resources management – international problems and opportunities. Water Resources Bulletin 31(1), 9-20.

Fishelson, G. (1994). The water market in Israel – an example for increasing the supply. Resource and Energy Economics 16(4), 321-334.

Gaffney, M. (1997). What price water marketing – California new frontier. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56(4), 475-520.

Gopalakrishnan, C. (1995). Sharing scarcity – gainers and losers in water marketing, by H. Carter, H. Vaux, and A. Scheuring. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77(3), 811-812.

Griffin, R.C. and F.O. Boadu. (1992). Water marketing in Texas – opportunities for reform. Natural Resources Journal 32(2), 265-288.

Halverson, P. and N.K. Whittlesey. (1990). Economic feasibility of contingent water markets for Columbia Basin. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(5), 1359-1359.

Hamilton, J.R. N.K. Whittlesey, and P. Halverson. (1989). Interruptible water markets in the Pacific Northwest. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(1), 63-75.

Hearne, R.R. and K.W. Easter. (1997). The economic and financial gains from water markets in Chile. Agricultural Economics 15(3), 187-199.

Holburt, M.B., R.W. Atwater and T.H. Quinn. (1988). Water marketing in Southern California. Journal of American Water Works Association 80(3), 38-45.

Howe, C.W., D.R. Schurmeier, and W.D. Shaw. (1986). Innovative approaches to water allocation – the potential for water markets. Water Resources Research 22(4), 439-445.

Howitt, R.E. (1994). Empirical analysis of water market institutions – the 1991 California water market. Resource and Energy Economics 16(4), 357-371.

Huffaker, R., N.K. Whittlesey and P.R. Wandschneider. (1993). Institutional feasibility of contingent water marketing to increase migratory flows for salmon on the Upper Snake River. Natural Resources Journal 33(3), 671-696.

Israel, M. and J.R. Lund. (1995). Recent California water transfers – implications for water management. Natural Resources Journal 35(1), 1-32.

Keenan, S.P., R.S. Krannich, and M.S. Walker. (1999). Public perceptions of water transfers and markets – describing differences in water-use communities. Society and Natural Resources 12(4), 279-292.  

Klebba, J.M. (1993). Water rights and water policy in Louisiana –laissez faire riparianism, market based approaches, or a new managerialism. Louisiana Law Review 53(6), 1779-1846.

Kuhnle, T. (1995). The federal income tax implications of water transfers. Stanford law Review 47(3), 533-563.

Livingston, M.L. (1993). Normative and positive aspects of institutional economics – the implications for water policy. Water Resources Research 29(4), 815-821.

Lo, L.J. and T.M. Horbulyk. (1996). Short-run welfare gains in a simulated water market – the effects of market scope and of property-rights endowments. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78(5), 1390-1390.

Lund, J.R. (1993). Transaction risk versus transaction costs in water transfers. Water Resources Research 29(9), 3103-3107.

Lynne, G.D.  “Agricultural Water Modeling and Economic Information Needs Under the Model Water Code.” Wat. Resour. Bul. 24,1(Feb. 1988): 95-101.

Lynne, G.D. and J. Burkhardt. (1990). The evolution of water institutions in Florida – a neoinstituionalist perspective. Journal of Economic Issues 24(4), 1059-1077.

Lynne, G. D., J. Walter Milon, and Michael E. Wilson.  “Identifying and Measuring Potential Conflict in Water Institutions.”  Wat. Resour. Bul.  26,4 (Aug. 1990):  669-676.

Lynne, G. D., J. S. Shonkwiler, and Michael E. Wilson.  "Water Permitting Behavior Under the 1972 Florida Water Resources Act."  Land Economics 67,3 (August 1991): 340-351.

Lynne, Gary D. and Phyllis Park Saarinen.  "Melding Private and Public Interest in Water Rights Markets."  J. Agr. Applied Econ. 25 (July 1993):  69-83.

Martin, W.E. (1986). Evolving water institutions in an urbanizing West – discussion. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 68(5), 1152-1154.

McCann, R.J. (1996). Environmental commodities markets – messy versus ideal worlds. Contemporary Economic Policy 14(3), 85-97.

McCarl, B.A., C.R. Dillon, K.O. Keplinger and R.L. Williams. (1999). Limiting pumping from the Edward Aquifer – an economic investigation of proposals, water markets, and spring flow guarantees. Water Resources Research 35(4), 1257-1268.

McCormick, Z. (1994). Institutional barriers to water marketing in the west. Water Resources Bulletin 39(6), 953-961.

McNally, M. (1994). Water marketing – the case of Indian reserved rights. Water Resources Bulletin 30(6), 963-970.

Michelson, A.M. and R.A. Young. (1993). Optioning agricultural water rights for urban water supplies during drought. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75(4), 1010-1020.

Moore, M.R. (1991). The Bureau of Reclamation’s new mandate for irrigation water  conservation – purposes and policy alternatives. Water Resources Research 27(2), 145-155.

Mosher, L. (1986). What role water markets. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 41(6), 390-392.

Muckleston, K.W. (1984). Water and agriculture in the Western United States – conservation, reallocation and markets, by G.D. Weatherford, L. Brown, H. Ingram, and D. Mann. Journal of Regional Science 24(2), 304-305.

Nichols, A.B. (1987). Worlds water markets beckon consultants and suppliers. Journal of Water Pollution Control Federation 59(10), 842-850.

Pratt, K.B. (1988). Mitigating third party effects (reprinted from Water Marketing 1987 – profits, problems, and policies in the western United States. Journal of American Water Works Association 80(3), 51-57.  

Rees, J. (1992). Markets – the panacea for environmental regulation. Geoforum 23(3), 383-394.

Rosegrant, M.W. and H.P. Binswanger. (1994). Markets in tradable water rights – potential for efficiency gains in developing country water resource allocation. World Development 22(11), 1613-1625.

Rosegrant, M.W., R.G. Schleyer and S.N. Yadav. (1995).Water policy for efficient agricultural diversification – market-based approaches. Food Policy 20(3), 203-223.

Rosen, M.D. and R.J. Sexton. (1993). Irrigation districts and water markets – an application of cooperative decision-making theory. Land Economics 69(1), 39-53.

Saarinen, Phyllis Park and Gary D. Lynne. "Getting the Most Valuable Water Supply Pie:  Economic Efficiency in Florida's Reasonable-Beneficial Use Standard."  J. Land Use and Env. Law  8 (Summer Supplement 1993): 491-520.

Saleth, R.M. (1994). Towards a new water institution – economics, law, and policy. Economic and Political Weekly 29(39), A147-A155.

Saliba, B.C. (1987). Do water markets work – market transfers and trade-offs in the Southwestern States. Water Resources Research 23(7), 1113-1122.

Saliba, B.C., D.B. Bush, W.E. Martin, and T.C. Brown. (1987). Do water market prices appropriately measure water values. Natural Resources Journal 27(3), 617-651.

Schoolmaster, F.A. (1991). Water marketing and water rights transfers in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Professional Geographer 43(3), 292-304.

Scott, A. and G. Coustalin. (1995). The evolution of water rights. Natural Resources Journal 35(4), 821-979.

Shah, T. and V. Ballabh. (1997). Water markets in North Bihar – six village studies in Muzaffarpur District. Economic and Political Weekly 32(52), A183-A190.

Smith. R.T. and R. Vaughan. (1988). Irrigation districts – obstacles to water marketing. Journal of American Water Works Association 80(3), 10.  

Thobani, M. (1997). Formal water Markets – why, when and how to introduce tradable water rights. World Bank Research Observer 12(2), 161-169.

Thompson, B.H. (1993). Institutional perspectives on water policy and markets. California Law Review 81(3), 671-764.  

Thompson, Peter and Gary D. Lynne.  "Policy Drought:  The Case of South Florida."  Wat. Resour. Bul. 30,1 (Feb. 1994): 19-26.

Weinberg, M. (1994). Of water markets, water prices, and quantity controls – an analysis of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 76(5), 1272-1272.

Weinberg, M., C.L. Kling, and J.E. Wilen. (1993). Water markets and water quality. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75(2), 278-291.

Wernstedt, K. 91995). Regional environmental policy and the distribution of economic impacts among rural households. Environment and Planning 27(4), 645-662.

White, S.E. and D.E. Kromm. (1996). Appropriation and water rights issues in the high plains Ogallala region. Social Science Journal 33(4), 437-450.

Whittlesey, N.K. and J. Hamilton. (1988). Option lease water markets in the Pacific Northwest. 70(5), 1202-1202.

 Whittlesey, N.K. and R.G. Huffaker. (1995). Water policy issues for the 21^st century. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77(5), 1199-1203.

Williams, J.R. and D.L. Tanaka. (1996). Economic evaluation of topsoil loss in spring wheat production in the Northern Great Plains, USA. Soil and Tillage Research 37(2-3), 95-112.

Willey, Z. (1992). Behind schedule and over budget – the case of markets, water, and environment. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 15a(2), 391-425.

Zeilig, N. (1988). Water marketing. Journal of American Water Works Association 80(3), 29-29.

Zeilig, N. and S.J. Shupe. (1988). Water marketing – an overview. Journal of American Water Works Association 80(3), 18.  

Zeitouni, N., N. Becker and M. Shechter. (1994). Models of water market mechanisms and an illustrative application to the Middle East. Resource and Energy Economics 16(4), 303-319.