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Water Resources Pricing Research Based On Sustainable Development

Posted on:2006-07-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360155455976Subject:Political economy
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AS other natural resourceses, the water resources can be sustainable made use of and the water ecosystem keeps balance or not, are closely related with human beings' sustainableenvelopment. Today, mankind has come to the ecosystem civilization through agriculture civilization and the industry civilization .In the industry civilization, the ecosystem environment encountered the huge breakage. The water resources that mankind rely for existence was also difficult to escape. The problem of water became a big obstacle of the mankind's sustainable development.Under the condition of market economy, we can use price to macro-manage the water resources. This paper based on the ideas of sustainable development, analyzed the characteristics of water resources especially on supply and demand of water, pointing out how to carry out the sustainable utilization of water resources, comb and elaborate the existing pricing models of water resources, later on, pointing out the shortcoming and the practical scope of these models. This paper centers on Marginal Opportunity Cost(MOC) model. Finally, according to the experience of nearly one year study on water resources, I put forward the suggestion about the usage and price of water resources.
Keywords/Search Tags:Sustainable Development, Water Resources, Pricing, Marginal Opportunity Cost(MOC) model
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