Adaptation and Resilience: The Economics of Climate, Water, and Energy Challenges in the American Southwest (RFF Press Water Policy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933115939 ISBN 13: 9781933115931

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

In America's arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protections. This book explores the challenges that climate change and variability pose for water and energy managers and users, communities, and policy makers in the arid Southwest and demonstrates the application of economic methods to address these challenges. It provides valuable tools for both those interested in resource management and climate change, and those seeking to understand how economic methods can be used to analyze contemporary social problems and craft appropriate responses. The book considers both adaptation to long-term climate change and more immediate issues of water and electricity management in the face of inter-annual climate variability and drought. Thus, no matter what one's perspective on long-run climate change projections, the book provides useful lessons for some of the region's most pressing resource management problems.

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About the Author

Bonnie G. Colby and George B. Frisvold are professors of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Arizona

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933115939
• ISBN 13: 9781933115931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Colby Bonnie G., Frisvold George B.