Water Allocation Under Administrative Regulation: Some Economic Considerations

Section I Interstate Water Allocation Economics Resolving Interstate Water Allocation Conflicts: Tools, Strategies, and Administrative Options

Introduction Interstate water disputes are an increasingly common occurrence throughout the United States, as the demands on transboundary water resources continue to increase in magnitude and diversity. These disputes can involve a variety of water-related issues. In the arid and semi-arid West, the interstate allocation-or "apportionment"-is normally the central and often only concern. In the...

Economic manufacturing model under partial backordering and sustainability considerations

Today, “Sustainable production” has attracted a great deal of interest by academic researchers and practitioners due to the raising environmental and social concerns. Sustainable EPQ model has been developed as a result of this interest and also necessity. This paper develops a novel sustainable EPQ (SEPQ) model under partial backordering consideration. The model converts all emission variation...

Objectives in Advanced Countries : Some Economic Considerations

Economic and Effectiveness Evaluation Analysis of Some Resource Allocation Procedures

Review of theoretical models for cost-effectiveness and of procedures currently being used by different levels of decision makers to evaluate the projects or alternatives is the main objective of this article. To come to some conclusion that which theoretical model would be more effective to be applied for allocating the limited resources among different projects. the performance evaluation pro...

Some Considerations About Monitoring Water Quality

Cumulative watershed effects (CWEs) result from multiple activities over time and space. The assessment of CWEs in the Sierra Nevada is severely limited by the lack of field data on the effects of a given action, the lack of models to predict the effects of multiple actions at the watershed scale, and the limited data relating stream channel conditions to measured or predicted changes in runoff...