Water rights : scarce resource allocation, bureaucracy, and the environment / editor, Terry L. Anderson ; foreword by Jack Hirshleifer.

Other author Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946-
Other author Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research.
Format Book
Publication InfoSan Francisco, Calif. : Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research ; Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Pub. Co., ©1983.
Descriptionxxiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPacific studies in public policy
Pacific studies in public policy.
Contents Appropriators versus expropriators / Alfred G. Cuzán -- The federal reclamation program / Randal R. Rucker and Price V. Fishback -- Water pricing and rent seeking in California agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner -- Water in Colorado / Timothy D. Tregarthen -- Institutional restrictions on the transfer of water rights and the survival of an agency / Micha Gisser and Ronald N. Johnson -- The economic determinants and consequences of private and public ownership of local irrigation facilities / Rodney T. Smith -- Privatizing groundwater basins / Terry L. Anderson, Oscar R. Burt, and David T. Fractor -- Instream water use / James Huffman -- Building markets for tradable pollution rights / M.T. Maloney and Bruce Yandle.
Local noteLittle-258011--305130012205M
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 83003855
ISBN0884103897
ISBN9780884103899
ISBN0884103900 (pbk.)
ISBN9780884103905 (pbk.)