Joint Quantity/Quality Management of Groundwater

Catarina Roseta-Palma

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, vol. 26, issue 1, 89-106

Abstract: Economic literature on groundwater managementhas traditionally been split into two areas: there are papers that evaluate different schemes of dynamicaquifer management, considering that pumping costs vary with stock but ignoring water quality. On the other hand, there are papers that considercontamination problems caused by specificpollutants. This paper presents two alternative models for joint quantity-quality management, and it shows that existing models are in fact special cases of these. The framework isdynamic and considers both the stock of waterquantity and a stock measure of water quality. Optimal taxes are derived, and shown to be different from those in existing quantity-only or quality-only models. Implementationproblems are briefly discussed. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

Keywords: groundwater; optimal taxes; quantity-quality management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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