Water Pricing for Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice

Author: Wang Hao
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is suitable for researchers, educators, planning managers, and undergraduate, graduate, and faculty students in fields such as water resources, water conservancy, hydrology, geography, environment, ecology, economics, and natural resources. It is a theoretical monograph on water pricing. Based on the characteristics of water resources, the book discusses a sustainable water pricing system; establishes a water pricing model and accounting calculation method based on macroeconomics; proposes a triple-construction theory of full-cost water pricing; studies the impact of water price adjustments on water supply and demand changes and the national economy; investigates the theory and policy of water resource fees and taxes reform in China, as well as the water rights system and water market development; and puts forward relevant policy recommendations for water price management and implementation in China.