Management of Shared Groundwater Resources The Israeli-Palestinian C
Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries,
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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY Editors: Ariel Dinar Rural Development Department The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
David Zilberman Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics Univ. of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720
EDITORIAL STATEMENT There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore, there may be dire consequences to natural resources' mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water, land and the environment are linked, and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics, management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water, land, crop protection, sustainable agriculture, technology, and environmental health. It incorporates modern thinking and techniques of economics and management. Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment. We witness lately statements about water wars. At the same time we observe efforts to demonstrate the value of cooperation from sharing water resources, and the possible institutional arrangements to support a joint management of shared water. This book is an example of such efforts. It focuses on possible arrangements for joint management of the Mountain Aquifers underlying the West Bank and Israel, and extrapolate to include other cases of joint management of groundwater in other international setting.
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MANAGEMENT OF SHARED
GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective Edited by
Eran Feitelson and
Marwan Haddad
The Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Palestine Consultancy Group
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Management of shared groundwater resources : the Israeli-Palestinian case with an international per
