Water Economics and Policy (WEP)

2015 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ariel Dinar

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Volume 11, issue 01, 2025

In Remembrance of Amnon Rapoport: An Extraordinary Behavioralist and Great Mentor pp. 1-3

Edgar Tellez Foster

Distributive Preferences and Fair Water Sharing Among Farmers in India pp. 1-35

Benjamin Ouvrard, Arnaud Reynaud and Murudaiah Sivamurthy

Does Modernization of Irrigation Infrastructure Create Mental Accounts? Insights from an Exploratory Experiment with Spanish Water User Associations pp. 1-28

Patrick Hoffmann and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

Ecological Influences on Informal Property Rights: Experimental Evidence pp. 1-28

Erik Kimbrough

Review Paper — Assessing the Economic Implications of Land Subsidence pp. 1-20

Kelly M. Cobourn

Policy Nook — Policy Note: The Role of Experimental Economics in Designing and Evaluating Climate Policy pp. 1-13

Astrid Dannenberg

Editorial Note: Use of Experimental Economics to Address Challenges in Water, Natural Resources, and the Environment pp. 1-9

Anabela Botelho

Book Review — Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture: Transitioning from Open to Regulated Access pp. 1-5

Ariel Dinar

Reverse Contests as a Means to Reduce Polluting Activity pp. 1-37

Judith Avrahami, David V. Budescu and Yaakov Kareev

Dynamic Decision-Making in Common-Pool Resource Economic Experiments: Behavioral Heterogeneity in the Field and the Lab pp. 1-92

Rodrigo Salcedo Du Bois

Social Learning Through Water Games in the Field pp. 1-48

Adriana Bernal-Escobar, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Laia Domenech, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Paula J. Sarmiento

Volume 10, issue 04, 2024

Book Review — Tapping Technologies: The Role of Technological Change in Transboundary Water Management1 pp. 1-7

Ariel Dinar

Understanding the Water-Energy Nexus at the Private Household Level: An Economic Perspective pp. 1-43

Yuanzao Zhu, Christian Klassert, Bernd Klauer and Erik Gawel

Hydroeconomic Analysis: History, Status, and Possibilities pp. 1-83

Frank A. Ward

Policy Note: Investigating Corruption in the Water Sector: An Interview with Lance Williams, California Investigative Reporter pp. 1-9

Dale Whittington

Editorial — Volume 10 Issue 4 (December 2024) pp. 1-9

Jinxia Wang

Cannabis Home Cultivation and Residential Water Use: Evidence from New Mexico pp. 1-38

Sarah S. Stith and Swarup Paudel

Carrying Capacity of Water Environment and the Associated Optimization of Socioeconomic Structure of Yangzong Lake Basin, China pp. 1-18

Wanbin Wang, Yan Liu, Haifeng Jia, Tangzhen Guan, Xingzi Zhang, Yuexiong Liu and Sen Li

Multi-Objective Crop and Livestock Allocation Modeling (MOCLAM) for Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study of Semi-Arid India pp. 1-33

Prem Chand, Rajni Jain, Suresh Pal and Priyanka Agarwal

The Determinants of Household Water Demand: A Focus on Water, Energy, and Food Prices pp. 1-54

Thomas van Huyssteen, Djiby Thiam and Sanderine Nonhebel

Volume 10, issue 03, 2024

Economic Impact of the Drought in Spain: Measurement for the Adoption of Measures pp. 1-27

Paula Villegas, Manuel Alejandro Cardenete and L. Dary Beltran

Investigating Economic and Climate Signals in Groundwater Data pp. 1-32

Mekha Pereira, Zoey Reed-Spitzer, Laura Condon and Bonnie Colby

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Prediction of the Water Ecological Footprint in Chinese Super-megacities pp. 1-44

Yawei He, Huaxin Zhang, Xinran Liu and Haiying Liu

The Impact of a Coastal Water Quality Policy in South Korea: Evidence from the Total Pollution Load Management Program pp. 1-37

Tae-Hyun Kim

Book Review — Water Policy in Pakistan: Issues and Options pp. 1-5

Ariel Dinar

Water and Economic Growth in Developed and Developing Countries pp. 1-24

Edward Barbier

Editorial — Volume 10 Issue 3 (September 2024) pp. 1-6

Ariel Dinar

Policy Note: Government Linked Companies (GLCs) as Investors in Water Sector in China: Implications for Public–Private Partnership (PPP) pp. 1-13

Xiaoting Zheng and Xun Wu

Does Residents’ Perception of Information Influence the Implementation Effect of Increasing-Block Water Pricing Policy? pp. 1-30

Guoji Zhang, Huaqing Wu, Yezheng Liu, Xin Chen and Pingfan Song

Volume 10, issue 02, 2024

Book Review — A Transboundary Water Management that Works: Review of the Book Border Water by Steve Mumme pp. 1-5

Nicolás Pineda-Pablos

Policy Note: Mental Accounts and Water Prices pp. 1-10

Ching Leong

Review Paper: A Quarter of a Century of the European Water Framework Directive — The Slow Path Towards Sustainable Water Management pp. 1-23

Jose Albiac, Elena Calvo and Encarna Esteban

A Grave Concern: Water-Intensive Crops and Subsidized Electricity Amplifying Groundwater Depletion in India pp. 1-34

Harish Sahu and Kalandi Charan Pradhan

Groundwater Extraction for Irrigation Purposes: The Case of Asymmetric Players pp. 1-34

Valeriia Chukaeva, Julia de Frutos Cachorro and Jesús Marín-Solano

Water Footprint Flow and Vulnerability of China’s Provincial Energy Sector pp. 1-35

Han Sun, Zhenghao Meng, Lu Chen, Xiaohui Yang and Shan Ni

Editorial: Volume 10 Issue 2 (June 2024) pp. 1-7

George Frisvold

Comparing Flood Damages to an Industrial Region in Turkey Using Several Methods pp. 1-26

Pınar Spor and Emrah Doğan

Assessment of the Economic Consequences of Riverbank Erosion: The Case of the South Morava River, Serbia pp. 1-24

Marko Langović, Svetlana Popović, Slavoljub Dragićević, Žaklina Stojanović and Emilija Manić

Volume 10, issue 01, 2024

Reflection on the 10th Anniversary of the Journal Water Economics and Policy (WEP) pp. 1-2

Ariel Dinar, George Frisvold, Renan Goetz, Jonas Luckmann, Jinxia Wang, Maura Allaire, Karina Schoengold and Yulin Jiang

Book Review – Handbook on the Economics of Disasters pp. 1-3

Zhenhang Cai and Galen Newman

Willingness to Pay for Ancillary Water Service Improvements in Puerto Rico pp. 1-26

Héctor Tavárez and Levan Elbakidze

Does Water Resource Fee to Tax Policy Help Reduce Water Pollution in China? pp. 1-35

Jiangyuan Li, Tao Ding and Liang Liang

Editorial — Volume 10 Issue 1 (March 2024) pp. 1-7

Jonas Luckmann

Economic Benefits from Restoration Actions in Coastal Communities pp. 1-21

Richard Melstrom and Jillian Hyink

Does the Value of Water-Related Ecosystem Services Capture Water Scarcity? Application to Rice Farming in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam? pp. 1-37

Nguyen H. D. My, Nguyen Duc Kien, Pham Xuan Hung and Le Thi Quynh Anh

Can Knowledge, Responsibility and Environmentalism Explain Preference Heterogeneity? A Latent-Class Probit Model Analysis for Plastic Pollution Abatement pp. 1-31

Emmanouil Tyllianakis

Policy Note: Why Irrigation Water Pricing is Difficult pp. 1-8

Petra Hellegers and Brian Davidson

Volume 09, issue 04, 2023

Schemes for Allocation of Benefits from Contracted Water-Saving: The Case of Irrigated Field Projects in China pp. 1-33

Jiwei Zhu, Jiangrui Wang, Wenxing Fang and Shijia Yu

Policy Note: An Alternative Approach to Designing Tariffs for Household Water Use: The Case of Los Angeles pp. 1-18

Michael Hanemann

Economic and Political Cycles in China: Leadership Uncertainty and Local Government’s Water Resources Governance Performance pp. 1-22

Yanfang Niu, Mangmang Chen, Jie Yang, Limeng Ying and Yu Sun

Editorial — Special Issue on Economics of Water Technology Diffusion and Policy Uncertainties pp. 1-14

Zhanhong Wan

Research on the Impact of Water Conservation Projects on the Economic, Leisure Environment and Ecological Development of Cities Under Extreme Climate Events pp. 1-23

Tzu-Yun Lin, Chih-Cheng Lo, Jan-Wei Lin, Hsiao-Hsien Lin, Peng-Hui Liu and Chih-Chien Shen

Role of Virtual Water Trade Under the Generalized Trade Framework in Xinjiang’s Economic Sustainable Development pp. 1-20

Chao Tang and Yong Liu

The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government pp. 1-3

Chi Ho Sham

Evolutionary Game Analysis of the Innovation and Diffusion of Water-Saving Technology pp. 1-29

Lianyan Xu, Dechun Huang, Zhengqi He and Jie Cao

Policy Uncertainties, Water Technology and Economic Growth pp. 1-25

Fan Yang, Jingyi Ge and Xiaomin Wang

New Exploration of China Bay Water Governance: Traceability, Deconstruction, and Evaluation of Bay Chief System Policy pp. 1-30

Peng Sun and Kechong Zhou

Volume 09, issue 03, 2023

Examining Implicit Price Variation for Lake Water Quality pp. 1-41

Kristen Swedberg, Kevin Boyle, Jemma Stachelek, Nicole K. Ward, Weizhe Weng and Kelly M. Cobourn

Efficiency Concerns of Groundwater Irrigation in Green Revolution States of India: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach pp. 1-28

Deepratan Singh Khara and Ranjit Singh Ghuman

A Spatially Explicit Hydro-Economic Modeling Procedure to Design Cost-Effective Agri-Environment Schemes for Mitigating Water Pollution from Cropland pp. 1-35

Zhengzheng Hao, Frank Wätzold and Astrid Sturm

Editorial: Cost-Benefit Analysis to Inform Water Policy Debate pp. 1-11

Nir Becker and Frank A. Ward

Willingness to Pay for Urban Inland River Restoration: Case of Nanyang, China pp. 1-36

Yinan Dong and Elena Iosifovna Lazareva

Book Review — Water Quality and Agriculture: Economics and Policy for Nonpoint Source Water Pollution pp. 1-4

Levan Elbakidze

An Economic Evaluation of the Rural Drinking Water Fee Using the System Dynamics Method pp. 1-23

Hamed Nozari, Mohamad Mohamadi, Safar Marofi and Ahad Ahadiiman

Policy Note: Benefit Cost Analysis of Water Investments in the Anthropocene pp. 1-23

Dale Whittington, Richard Carson and Thomas Sterner

Volume 09, issue 02, 2023

Reducing Leakage: Subsidies and Tariff Reform in Water and Sanitation Services in Metropolitan Lima, Peru pp. 1-37

Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Tomas Serebrisky, Ben Solís Sosa, Helena Cárdenas, Mauro Orlando Gutiérrez Martínez and Sandro Alejandro Huamaní Antonio

Accounting for Residential Nonpayment Risk for Water Utility Financial Sustainability pp. 1-18

Erika Smull and Martin Doyle

Book Review — Advanced Introduction to Water Politics pp. 1-3

Tomás Olivier

Public Benefits of Private Technology Adoption: Spatial Externalities of Water Conservation in India pp. 1-51

Anil K. Bhargava, Travis Lybbert and David Spielman

Exploring Water Use in Mildly Water-Scarce Regions: A Structural Decomposition Analysis for Anhui Province in China pp. 1-30

Qianqian Li, Guangwei Deng, Huaqing Wu, Tao Ding and Ya Chen

Editorial — Volume 9 Issue 2 (June 2023) pp. 1-6

Renan Goetz

Policy Note: Systems Thinking for More Holistic Analysis of Low- and Middle-Income Country Water Utility Problems and Solutions pp. 1-17

Marc Jeuland

An Exploration of Customers’ Satisfaction with Water and Wastewater Services in the UK pp. 1-24

Kang Tian, Daniel Goodwin, Elaine Gallagher and Heather Smith

Volume 09, issue 01, 2023

A Hydro-Economic Model to Support Water Scarcity pp. 1-28

Renata Locarno Frota, Samíria Maria Oliveira Silva, Francisco de Assis Souza Filho and Victor Costa Porto

A Multiregional Input–Output Hydro-Economic Modeling Framework: An Application to the Ebro River Basin pp. 1-53

Miguel A. Almazán-Gómez, Taher Kahil, Rosa Duarte and Julio Sánchez-Chóliz

Evaluation of the Impact of Groundwater Management Policies Under Climate and Economic Changes in Tunisia pp. 1-51

Rania Soula, Ali Chebil, Rajouene Majdoub, Daniel Crespo, José Albiac and Taher Kahil

Testing the Predictive Power of Hydro-Economic Supply-Side Input–Output Models Under Different Water Availability and Economic Conditions Over Time in a Transboundary River Basin pp. 1-43

Leila Eamen, Roy Brouwer and Saman Razavi

Book Review — The Economics of Water: Rules and Institutions pp. 1-3

Jesper Svensson

Editorial — Advances in Hydro-Economic Modeling for Sustainable Basin Management in a Context of Climate Change pp. 1-8

Alfonso Expósito, Taher Kahil and Julio Berbel

What are the Sustainable Water Policies in Central Regions of Iran? An Integrated Water Resource Management Model pp. 1-33

Hossein Dastkhan and Golnaz Mohamadi

Policy Note: Artificial Intelligence Enables Multi-Dimensional Economics of Water pp. 1-14

Julien J. Harou

Hydro-Economic Modeling of Water Resources Management Challenges: Current Applications and Future Directions pp. 1-50

J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou, Mahesh Maskey, José M. Rodríguez-Flores, Josué Medellín-Azuara, Samuel Sandoval-Solis, Tatiana Ermolieva, Zoe Kanavas, Reetik Kumar Sahu, Yoshihide Wada and Taher Kahil