TY - BOOK ID - 135637105 TI - Institutions and Economics of Water Scarcity and Droughts AU - Berbel, Julio AU - Montilla-López, Nazaret M. AU - Giannoccaro, Giacomo PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Baiyangdian Lake KW - Landsat KW - complex water extraction KW - SMDPSO KW - dynamic changes KW - drought risk KW - water supply risk KW - irrigation insurance KW - water use KW - Spain KW - drought KW - water markets KW - Western US KW - hydro-economic modelling KW - water policy KW - climate change KW - river basin management KW - water scarcity KW - water supply KW - risk reduction KW - risk curves KW - cost-benefit analysis KW - water management KW - water rights KW - water supply reliability KW - irrigation agriculture KW - allocation rules KW - priority rights KW - Po River Basin KW - institutional economics KW - climate change adaptation KW - cost of adaptation KW - water pricing KW - water-use efficiency KW - economic model KW - inter-sectoral KW - river basin KW - good water practices KW - tourist accommodation KW - tourist KW - Mediterranean KW - water reuse KW - reclaimed water KW - SWOT analysis KW - cluster analysis KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135637105 AB - This Special Issue opens a new field of research in certain emerging innovative instruments, because it provides an in-depth revision of the main aspects of institutions and instruments available for the management and governance of droughts and water scarcity. The key aspects that institutions may tackle not only include the increasing water scarcity in many regions around the world but also the increasing frequency and impact of droughts on economic and natural systems. Some of the included papers analyze critical issues, such as the state and future trends of water markets; the estimation of transaction costs when dealing with drought management; and the use of new instruments, such as insurance and water-rights entitlements, which include water security, water-pricing effects on the whole basin level, and intra- and inter-sectorial re-allocation. The important issues regarding non-conventional water supply and the governance of the new resources also feature as the focus of some of the contributions. ER -