The Market Alternative

Dellapenna, Joseph W.

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“…Some rural areas of the West have passed regulation to reduce the transferability of water rights due, mainly, to concerns related to the long-term economic health of source regions of water trades and fears that the loss of agricultural productivity will lead to increased levels of unemployment and other social issues [66]. Popular accounts of local resistance to water transfers [7,67] generally depict such transactions negatively-particularly as related to the perceived loss of long-term economic viability in the source region and to market inequalities; some suggest that such inequities doom the viability of water markets as a solution to the water allocation dilemmas facing western states [68].…”

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Market-Driven Solutions to Economic, Environmental, and Social Issues Related to Water Management in the Western USA

Clayton

2009

Water

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Water management issues continue to plague the western United States, including rapid population growth, degraded aquatic ecosystems, unfulfilled claims to American Indian users, the threat of global warming, an economic recession, and many other issues. This essay outlines some advantages of market-driven reforms to the management of water resources in the western USA. Historical and contemporary western water resource issues are examined from economic, environmental, and social viewpoints. In all such contexts, it is argued that regulated water markets provide flexible and just solutions to western water dilemmas, and reallocations may provide much-needed additional water supply.

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Market-Driven Solutions to Economic, Environmental, and Social Issues Related to Water Management in the Western USA

Clayton

2009

Water

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“…Allocation is increasingly subject to ownership rules and market mechanisms. Even so, privatization has not always been successful (Dellapenna 2009 for the United States, Schouten and Schwartz 2006;Tecco 2008 for the developing countries). In the developing world, allocation rules are highly contested, not only because of the concentration of water ownership, but because distribution networks are poorly organized and the ability of the poor to pay for diverse water uses is limited.…”

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Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared

Gupta

Lebel

2010

Int Environ Agreements

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A significant percentage of the global population does not yet have access to safe drinking water, sufficient food or energy to live in dignity. There is a continuous struggle to allocate the earth's resources among users and uses. This article argues that distributional problems have two faces: access to basic resources or ecospace; and, the allocation of environmental resources, risks, burdens, and responsibilities for causing problems. Furthermore, addressing problems of access and allocation often requires access to social processes (science, movements and law). Analysts, however, have tended to take a narrow, disciplinary approach although an integrated conceptual approach may yield better answers. This article proposes a multi-disciplinary perspective to the problem of access and allocation and illustrates its application to water management and climate change.

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“…Most scholars considered the promotion of water rights trading a forced step in the U.S., so as to escape the strictness and the inefficient outcomes of riparian doctrine and prior appropriation principle [29,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. Market-driven solutions are meant to introduce the flexibility needed in the management of water [28,29] to guarantee efficient allocation and exploitation of water resources.…”

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Water Property Models as Sovereignty Prerogatives: European Legal Perspectives in Comparison

Perin

Casalini

2010

Water

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Water resources in European legal systems have always been vested in sovereign power, regardless of their legal nature as goods vested in State property or as res communes omnium not subject to ownership. The common legal foundation of sovereign power over water resources departed once civil law jurisdictions leveled the demesne on ownership model, by introducing public ownership in the French codification of 1804, while common law jurisdiction developed a broader legal concept of property that includes even the rights to use res communes. The models led respectively to the establishment of administrative systems of water rights and markets of water rights. According to the first, public authorities' power to manage and preserve water resources is grounded in a derogatory regime, whereby water rights, grounded on licenses or concessions, are neither transferable nor tradeable. On the contrary, environmental and social concerns in water market schemes must be enforced by means of regulation, thus limiting private property rights on water, in compliance with the constitutional and common law constraints set out to protect the minimum content of property as a fundamental human right.

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The Market Alternative

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Market-Driven Solutions to Economic, Environmental, and Social Issues Related to Water Management in the Western USA

Market-Driven Solutions to Economic, Environmental, and Social Issues Related to Water Management in the Western USA

Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared

Water Property Models as Sovereignty Prerogatives: European Legal Perspectives in Comparison

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