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Are water markets a viable proposition in the Lower Mekong Basin?

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Title Are water markets a viable proposition in the Lower Mekong Basin?
 
Creator Reardon-Smith, K.
McCartney, Matthew P.
Rebelo, Lisa-Maria
 
Subject water market
river basins
water resources development
water management
integrated management
frameworks
water allocation
water use efficiency
water access
international waters
water governance
water policies
water quality
agricultural development
infrastructure
socioeconomic aspects
case studies
 
Description In Wheeler, S. A. (Ed.). Water markets: a global assessment. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
Water markets are a potential approach for reallocating and improving the efficiency of water use in river basins in which water resources are under stress as a consequence of demographic and economic pressures. However, establishing water markets is not easy and to be successful a wide range of context specific criteria, relating to the legal and institutional framework as well as political and economic conditions, must be met. We applied the Water Market Readiness Assessment framework proposed by Wheeler et al. (2017) to investigate whether adequate policy and governance arrangements were in place to enable water markets to effectively operate in the countries of the Lower Mekong River Basin. We identify a number of key gaps and conclude that more conventional regulatory approaches, along with integrated basin planning and management, will likely better serve the communities and environments of the region.
 
Date 2021-08-06
2021-09-28T02:43:25Z
2021-09-28T02:43:25Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Reardon-Smith, K.; McCartney, Matthew; Rebelo, Lisa-Maria. 2021. Are water markets a viable proposition in the Lower Mekong Basin? In Wheeler, S. A. (Ed.). Water markets: a global assessment. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp.91-111. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976930.00015]
9781788976930
9781788976923
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115184
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050669.pdf
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976930.00015
Managing Resource Variability and competing use
H050669
 
Language en
 
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Format p. 91-111
 
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing