Coping with Water Deficiency

1. Introduction.Phoebe Koundouri, Yiannis Kountouris and Kyriaki Remoundou PART I: ARID CLUSTER RESULTS 2. Water Management on Mediterranean Islands: Pressure, Recommended Policy and Management Options.Antonia A. Donta, Manfred, A. Lange and the MEDIS consortium 3. The Range of Existing Circumstances in the WaterStrategyMan Case Studies.Bernard Barraqué, Christos Karavitis, Pipina Katsiardi 4. Landscape Sensitivity, Resilience and Sustainable Watershed Management.James McGlade, Brian S. McIntosh, Paul Jeffrey 5. Using Economic Valuation Techniques to Inform Water Resources Management in the Southern European and Mediterranean and Developing Countries: A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and applications.Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri and Yiannis Kountouris 6. The Case for Declining Long-Term Discount Rates in the Evaluation of Flood-Defense Investments.Phoebe Koundouri 7. Models and Decisions Support Systems for Participatory Decisions Making in Integrated Water Resource Management.Carlo Giupponi and Alessandra Sgobbi PART II: RESULTS FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD 8. Evaluating the Institutional-Impact Interactions in the Context of Millennium Development Goals: Analytical Framework with Empirical Results.R. Maria Saleth, Ariel Dinar, and Susanne Neubert 9. Resource Pricing and Poverty Alleviation: The Case of Block Tariffs for Water in Beijing.Ben Groom, Xiaoying Liu and Tim Swanson