How Does Urbanization Affect Water Withdrawals? Insights from an Econometric-Based Landscape Simulation

Daniel P. Bigelow, Andrew J. Plantinga, David Lewis and Christian Langpap

Land Economics, 2017, vol. 93, issue 3, 413-436

Abstract: Effects on water resources are an understudied aspect of the environmental consequences of urbanization. We study how urban land development affects water withdrawals on a regional scale to account for market adjustments, human behavioral responses, and government institutions. Fine-scale econometric and simulation methods are used to represent the spatial heterogeneity associated with determinants of water withdrawals. Our analysis reveals a complicated relationship between future water withdrawals and changes in socioeconomic drivers. Despite population growth of approximately 85% and a doubling of income, water withdrawals in two urban areas increase by at most 12% and in another area, decrease slightly.

JEL-codes: Q24 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.93.3.413
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