Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy (eBook)

1. Defining and assessing Economic Policy Instruments for sustainable water management.- 2. Water pricing and taxes: an introduction.- 3. Effluent Tax in Germany.- 4. The Water Load Fee of Hungary.- 5. Water Abstraction Charges and Compensation Payments in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).- 6. The Danish Pesticide Tax.- 7. Subsidies for drinking water conservation in Cyprus.- 8. Residential Water Pricing in Italy.- 9. Water tariffs in agriculture – Emilia Romagna case study.- 10. Corporatization and Price Setting in the Urban Water Sector under Statewide Central Administration: The Israeli Experience.- 11. Water Budget Rate Structure:  Experiences from Several Urban Utilities in Southern California.- 12. Green energy certificates and compliance market.- 13. Subsidies for ecologically friendly hydropower plants through favourable electricity remuneration in Germany.- 14. Water trading: an introduction.- 15. Water Quality Trading in Ohio.- 16. Nitrogen Reduction in North Carolina.- 17. Evaluation of Salinity Offset Programs in Australia.- 18. Water Trading in the Tagus River Basin (Spain).- 19. Chilean Water Rights Markets as a Water Allocation Mechanism.- 20. Unbundling water rights as a means to improve water markets in Australia’s Southern Connected Murray Darling Basin.- 21. The Development of An Efficient Water Market in Northern Colorado, USA.- 22. Other types of incentives in water policy: an introduction.- 23. Cooperative agreements between water supply companies and farmers in Dorset (E).- 24. Financial compensation for environmental services – the case of the Evian Natural Mineral Water (France).- 25. New York City’s Watershed Agricultural Program.- 26. Voluntary Agreement for River Regime Restoration Services in the Ebro River Basin (Spain).- 27. Voluntary Agreements to Promote the Use of Reclaimed Water at Tordera River Basin.- 28. Key Conclusions and Methodological lessons from application of EPIs in addressing water policy challenges.