1. Introduction and Overview. - Regional Water Constraints: Middle East California Florida And Australia. - 2. The Israel Water Economy: An Overview. - 3. The Jordan River Basin: Beyond National Concerns. - 4. Water Resources in Turkey: Availability Use and Management. - 5. California's Water Resources and Institutions. - 6. Decentralized Water Allocation in Florida. - 7. Australia's Water Situation: Resource Allocation and Management in a Maturing System. - Economic Modeling Of Decentralized Water Management Policies. - 8. The Political Economy of Domestic Water Allocation: The Cases of Israel and Jordan. - 9. Transboundary Water Agreements and Development Assistance. - 10. Informational Imperfections in Water Resource Systems and the Political Economy of Water Supply and Pricing in Israel. - 11. The Strategic Interdependence of a Shared Water Aquifer: A General Equilibrium Analysis. - 12. Designing Institutions for Water Management. - 13. Employing Market Mechanisms to Encourage Efficient Use of Water in the Middle East. - 14. Efficient Management of Water in Agriculture. - 15. Deriving Short-Run Multistage Demand Curves and Simulating Market Prices for Reservoir Water Under Weather Uncertainty. - 16. Water Institutions Incentives and Markets. - 17. On Event Uncertainty and Renewable Resource Management. - 18. Quantifying Tradeoffs Between In-Stream and Off-Stream Uses Under Weather Uncertainty. - 19. An Ex Ante Approach to Modeling Investment in New Technology. - 20. The Economics of Conjunctive Ground and Surface Water Irrigation Systems: Basic Principles and Empirical Evidence from Southern California. - Case Studies. - 21. Peace and Prospects for International Water Projects in the Jordan-Yarmouk River Basin. - 22. Modeling the Impacts of Reducing Agricultural Water Supplies:Lessons from California's Bay/Delta Problem. - 23. Water and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century: The Middle East and California. - 24. Decentralized Mechanisms and Institutions for Managing Water Resources: Reflections on Experiences from Australia. Language: English