MARKET PRICES AS MEASURES OF WATER SCARCITY IN NEW MEXICO AND THE WEST

Knowledge Representation Meets Databases 1994

计算机科学;社会科学（总论）

F. Lee Brown

Others  :  http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/watcon/proc52/brown.pdf
PID  :  16861

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Good afternoon. I!ˉm pleased to have this opportunity to talk with you today about market prices for water and water rights in New Mexico and the West. Water limitations are increasingly shaping the way we live and work in this region, and the prices which emerge from the marketplace provide a socially important instrument in our collective management of this precious resource. Prices warn us when a commodity is in short supply, provide incentives to both conserve and seek additional supply, and guide us in reallocating it from uses that produce less economic value to those thatproduce more.