Book on Economy of Water: concepts and contexts for sustainable management
| Areas | : | Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher/s in charge | : | Eduardo Zegarra |
| Execution time | : | April 2013 |
Presentation
Economy of Water: concepts and contexts for sustainable management is a book that discusses concepts and policies, prepared within the context of the program Think Tank Initiative, through GRADE.
Attempts have been made to promote management reforms applying basic valuation, privatization and price formation concepts; however, serious limitations have been encountered when putting them in practice: conventional theory has awarded scarce attention to the historical, institutional, technological and social context where water is managed.
This book seeks to close the gap between the economic conceptual framework and other analysis dimensions relevant to the core purpose of the study. The central idea is to expose and use economic concepts that are basic, but socially and historically structured, as well as adequately contextualized, thus, giving rise to an agenda of management reforms that rest on a more solid conceptual and empirical base than the one we currently have.
