ARIEL DINAR is an Economist with the World Bank's Agriculture and Natural Resources Department in Washington DC. His work has been devoted to water resources problems at field, farm, regional and international levels.EDNA TUSAK LOEHMAN is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. Her work concerns welfare economics and policy analysis, environmental and resource economics and decision making.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionInstitutions and Processes; Concepts and Case StudiesManagement of Water Problems through Laws and Government OrganizationsEvaluation of Two Institutional Arrangements for Resolving Interstate Water Disputes by William B. Lord and Douglas S. KenneyThe Role of the U.S. Government in Water Quality and Quantity Issues by Cynthia DyballaThe Federal Clean Water Act and Its Application to the San Francisco Bay Estuary by Gregory A. ThomasInstitutional Development and Performance in Managing Southern California Groundwater Basins by William BlomquistWater Use and Transfer in Taiwan by Ching-Kai HsiaoWater Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in India by Shashikant Raghunath Sahasrabudhe, Ved Prakesh Vohra, and Mukesh KumarConflict Resolution in Ontario Water Resources Policy by Isobel W. HeathcoteInterstate Water Management: The Case of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia by Warren MusgraveDesign of Markets and Other InstitutionsThe Design of Institutional Arrangements for Water Allocation by K. William Easter and Yacov TsurResolving Water Transfer Conflicts Through Changes in the Water Market Process by Charles W. Howe and David J. GoodmanAlienable Privatization Policies: The Choice between Inefficiency and Injustice by Norman Frohlich and Joe OppenheimerIntegrating Equity, Efficiency, and Orderly Development in Western U.S. Groundwater Allocation by Arthur H. ChanIntegration of Quantity and Quality in a Water Market by Asghar Sabbaghi and Nicolas SpulberConflict Resolution Through Bargaining, Negotiation, and MediationToward a New Nile Waters Agreement by Dale Whittington, John Waterbury, and Elizabeth McClellandResolving Conflicts Over Water Disputes in the Jordan River Basin by Aaron Wolf and Stephen LonerganConflict Over Eastern U.S. Water Transfers: Toward a New Era of Negotiation? by Leonard A. Shabman and William E. CoxWestern U.S. Indian Water Conflicts: A Discussion of Economic Issues by Bonnie G. ColbyResolving Intergovernmental Water Disputes through Negotiation by Jeffrey L. JordanLessons in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Denver Water Department by Kathleen Anderson and Tim HolemanResolving Environmental Conflicts through Mediation by An PainterBargaining and Water Disputes: A Perspective on the Coming Decade by Leonard A. ShabmanCoalitions, Collective Action, and CooperationCompeting Demands for California's Scarce Water by Richard E. Howitt and Henry VauxCollective Action in Irrigation by Raouf F. KhouzamCooperative Solutions for Problems of Water Supply by Edna Tusak LoehmanCooperative and Noncooperative Water Diversion in the Great Lakes Basin by Nir Becker and K. William EasterInnovations in Cooperation: North American Waterfowl Management Plan by Luther P. GerlachMethods of Economic AnalysisDesigning Institutional RulesProtecting the Quality of Water Resources: Designing an Emission Charge System in New Zealand by Frank ScrimgeourPolitical Economy of the Transition from Water Rights to Water Markets by Farhed A. Shah and David ZilbermanMinimizing Potential Distortions in a Spot Water Market: A Multilateral Bargaining Approach by R. Maria Saleth and John B. BradenA Bargaining Model for Water Transfers Including Water Quality by George B. Frisvold and Margriet F. CaswellCommon Pool Resources: The Relevance of Laboratory Experimental Research by Steven C. Hackett and James M. WalkerEvaluation of Alternatives and Interest Group AnalysisPositional Analysis Applied to Water Pollution Problems in Developing Countries by Dugushilu Mafunda and Stale NavrudPolitical Power Measures for Water Management Interest Groups by C. Robert Stark, Jr., David S. Bullock, and Wesley D. SeitzAnalyzing Interest Group Preferences for Groundwater Management: An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Keith Willett and Ramesh ShardaContingent Valuation in Resolving Local Public Water Problems by Wesley N. Musser, Lynn M. Musser, Andrew S. Laughland, and James S. ShortleEconomic and Political Analysis of Dredging Ohio's State Park Lakes by Fred J. Hitzhusen, Somskaow Bejranonda, Timothy Lehman, and Robert MacgregorIndex

ARIEL DINAR is an Economist with the World Bank's Agriculture and Natural Resources Department in Washington DC. His work has been devoted to water resources problems at field, farm, regional and international levels.EDNA TUSAK LOEHMAN is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. Her work concerns welfare economics and policy analysis, environmental and resource economics and decision making.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionInstitutions and Processes; Concepts and Case StudiesManagement of Water Problems through Laws and Government OrganizationsEvaluation of Two Institutional Arrangements for Resolving Interstate Water Disputes by William B. Lord and Douglas S. KenneyThe Role of the U.S. Government in Water Quality and Quantity Issues by Cynthia DyballaThe Federal Clean Water Act and Its Application to the San Francisco Bay Estuary by Gregory A. ThomasInstitutional Development and Performance in Managing Southern California Groundwater Basins by William BlomquistWater Use and Transfer in Taiwan by Ching-Kai HsiaoWater Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in India by Shashikant Raghunath Sahasrabudhe, Ved Prakesh Vohra, and Mukesh KumarConflict Resolution in Ontario Water Resources Policy by Isobel W. HeathcoteInterstate Water Management: The Case of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia by Warren MusgraveDesign of Markets and Other InstitutionsThe Design of Institutional Arrangements for Water Allocation by K. William Easter and Yacov TsurResolving Water Transfer Conflicts Through Changes in the Water Market Process by Charles W. Howe and David J. GoodmanAlienable Privatization Policies: The Choice between Inefficiency and Injustice by Norman Frohlich and Joe OppenheimerIntegrating Equity, Efficiency, and Orderly Development in Western U.S. Groundwater Allocation by Arthur H. ChanIntegration of Quantity and Quality in a Water Market by Asghar Sabbaghi and Nicolas SpulberConflict Resolution Through Bargaining, Negotiation, and MediationToward a New Nile Waters Agreement by Dale Whittington, John Waterbury, and Elizabeth McClellandResolving Conflicts Over Water Disputes in the Jordan River Basin by Aaron Wolf and Stephen LonerganConflict Over Eastern U.S. Water Transfers: Toward a New Era of Negotiation? by Leonard A. Shabman and William E. CoxWestern U.S. Indian Water Conflicts: A Discussion of Economic Issues by Bonnie G. ColbyResolving Intergovernmental Water Disputes through Negotiation by Jeffrey L. JordanLessons in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Denver Water Department by Kathleen Anderson and Tim HolemanResolving Environmental Conflicts through Mediation by An PainterBargaining and Water Disputes: A Perspective on the Coming Decade by Leonard A. ShabmanCoalitions, Collective Action, and CooperationCompeting Demands for California's Scarce Water by Richard E. Howitt and Henry VauxCollective Action in Irrigation by Raouf F. KhouzamCooperative Solutions for Problems of Water Supply by Edna Tusak LoehmanCooperative and Noncooperative Water Diversion in the Great Lakes Basin by Nir Becker and K. William EasterInnovations in Cooperation: North American Waterfowl Management Plan by Luther P. GerlachMethods of Economic AnalysisDesigning Institutional RulesProtecting the Quality of Water Resources: Designing an Emission Charge System in New Zealand by Frank ScrimgeourPolitical Economy of the Transition from Water Rights to Water Markets by Farhed A. Shah and David ZilbermanMinimizing Potential Distortions in a Spot Water Market: A Multilateral Bargaining Approach by R. Maria Saleth and John B. BradenA Bargaining Model for Water Transfers Including Water Quality by George B. Frisvold and Margriet F. CaswellCommon Pool Resources: The Relevance of Laboratory Experimental Research by Steven C. Hackett and James M. WalkerEvaluation of Alternatives and Interest Group AnalysisPositional Analysis Applied to Water Pollution Problems in Developing Countries by Dugushilu Mafunda and Stale NavrudPolitical Power Measures for Water Management Interest Groups by C. Robert Stark, Jr., David S. Bullock, and Wesley D. SeitzAnalyzing Interest Group Preferences for Groundwater Management: An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Keith Willett and Ramesh ShardaContingent Valuation in Resolving Local Public Water Problems by Wesley N. Musser, Lynn M. Musser, Andrew S. Laughland, and James S. ShortleEconomic and Political Analysis of Dredging Ohio's State Park Lakes by Fred J. Hitzhusen, Somskaow Bejranonda, Timothy Lehman, and Robert MacgregorIndex

ARIEL DINAR is an Economist with the World Bank's Agriculture and Natural Resources Department in Washington DC. His work has been devoted to water resources problems at field, farm, regional and international levels.EDNA TUSAK LOEHMAN is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. Her work concerns welfare economics and policy analysis, environmental and resource economics and decision making.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionInstitutions and Processes; Concepts and Case StudiesManagement of Water Problems through Laws and Government OrganizationsEvaluation of Two Institutional Arrangements for Resolving Interstate Water Disputes by William B. Lord and Douglas S. KenneyThe Role of the U.S. Government in Water Quality and Quantity Issues by Cynthia DyballaThe Federal Clean Water Act and Its Application to the San Francisco Bay Estuary by Gregory A. ThomasInstitutional Development and Performance in Managing Southern California Groundwater Basins by William BlomquistWater Use and Transfer in Taiwan by Ching-Kai HsiaoWater Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in India by Shashikant Raghunath Sahasrabudhe, Ved Prakesh Vohra, and Mukesh KumarConflict Resolution in Ontario Water Resources Policy by Isobel W. HeathcoteInterstate Water Management: The Case of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia by Warren MusgraveDesign of Markets and Other InstitutionsThe Design of Institutional Arrangements for Water Allocation by K. William Easter and Yacov TsurResolving Water Transfer Conflicts Through Changes in the Water Market Process by Charles W. Howe and David J. GoodmanAlienable Privatization Policies: The Choice between Inefficiency and Injustice by Norman Frohlich and Joe OppenheimerIntegrating Equity, Efficiency, and Orderly Development in Western U.S. Groundwater Allocation by Arthur H. ChanIntegration of Quantity and Quality in a Water Market by Asghar Sabbaghi and Nicolas SpulberConflict Resolution Through Bargaining, Negotiation, and MediationToward a New Nile Waters Agreement by Dale Whittington, John Waterbury, and Elizabeth McClellandResolving Conflicts Over Water Disputes in the Jordan River Basin by Aaron Wolf and Stephen LonerganConflict Over Eastern U.S. Water Transfers: Toward a New Era of Negotiation? by Leonard A. Shabman and William E. CoxWestern U.S. Indian Water Conflicts: A Discussion of Economic Issues by Bonnie G. ColbyResolving Intergovernmental Water Disputes through Negotiation by Jeffrey L. JordanLessons in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Denver Water Department by Kathleen Anderson and Tim HolemanResolving Environmental Conflicts through Mediation by An PainterBargaining and Water Disputes: A Perspective on the Coming Decade by Leonard A. ShabmanCoalitions, Collective Action, and CooperationCompeting Demands for California's Scarce Water by Richard E. Howitt and Henry VauxCollective Action in Irrigation by Raouf F. KhouzamCooperative Solutions for Problems of Water Supply by Edna Tusak LoehmanCooperative and Noncooperative Water Diversion in the Great Lakes Basin by Nir Becker and K. William EasterInnovations in Cooperation: North American Waterfowl Management Plan by Luther P. GerlachMethods of Economic AnalysisDesigning Institutional RulesProtecting the Quality of Water Resources: Designing an Emission Charge System in New Zealand by Frank ScrimgeourPolitical Economy of the Transition from Water Rights to Water Markets by Farhed A. Shah and David ZilbermanMinimizing Potential Distortions in a Spot Water Market: A Multilateral Bargaining Approach by R. Maria Saleth and John B. BradenA Bargaining Model for Water Transfers Including Water Quality by George B. Frisvold and Margriet F. CaswellCommon Pool Resources: The Relevance of Laboratory Experimental Research by Steven C. Hackett and James M. WalkerEvaluation of Alternatives and Interest Group AnalysisPositional Analysis Applied to Water Pollution Problems in Developing Countries by Dugushilu Mafunda and Stale NavrudPolitical Power Measures for Water Management Interest Groups by C. Robert Stark, Jr., David S. Bullock, and Wesley D. SeitzAnalyzing Interest Group Preferences for Groundwater Management: An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process by Keith Willett and Ramesh ShardaContingent Valuation in Resolving Local Public Water Problems by Wesley N. Musser, Lynn M. Musser, Andrew S. Laughland, and James S. ShortleEconomic and Political Analysis of Dredging Ohio's State Park Lakes by Fred J. Hitzhusen, Somskaow Bejranonda, Timothy Lehman, and Robert MacgregorIndex