Policy Analysis of Water Management for the Netherlands: Vol. I, Summary Report

Goeller, B. F.; Abraham, Stanley Charles; Abrahamse, Allan; Bigelow, James H.; Bolten, Joseph G.; DeHaven, James C.; Jaquette, David L.; Katz, N. A.; Kirkwood, T. F.; Petruschell, Robert; Repnau, Tiina; Stucker, James P.; Walker, Warren; Wegner, Louis H.; Vaiana, Mary E.

Policy Analysis of Water Management for the Netherlands

Vol. I, Summary Report

by B. F. Goeller, Stanley Charles Abraham, Allan Abrahamse, James H. Bigelow, Joseph G. Bolten, James C. DeHaven, David L. Jaquette, N. A. Katz, T. F. Kirkwood, Robert Petruschell, et al.

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Summarizes the PAWN project, documented in RAND Notes N-1500/2 to N-1500/20, which designed alternative water management policies for the Netherlands and assessed their consequences. Considers both short- and long-term policies, including building new facilities and changing facility operating rules to improve supply as well as using prices and regulations to reduce user demands. Describes a widely applicable general approach to complex policy problems and presents the specific system of models developed to assess policy effects on agriculture and hydrology, irrigation, shipping, industry, drinking water companies, power plants, salt intrusion, groundwater supplies, and environment. Discusses the policies that were designed and their detailed consequences. Indicates how the study's results were incorporated into the new Dutch water management policy and how the methodology was institutionalized in the Netherlands. Provides a thoroughly documented case study showing how a policy analysis of complex natural resource and environmental questions can be carried out.

Part 1
Preface
Summary
Acknowledgments
Figures
Tables
Chapter 1

Introduction
Chapter 2

Overview of Approach
Part 2
Chapter 3

Overview of the Methodology
Chapter 4

Water Distribution Model
Chapter 5

External Supply
Chapter 6

Shipping
Chapter 7

Locks
Chapter 8

Rotterdam Salt Wedge
Chapter 9

The Ijssel Lakes
Chapter 10

Groundwater Storage Model
Chapter 11

Agriculture and Hydrology
Chapter 12

Sprinkling
Chapter 13

Agriculture Benefits
Chapter 14

Drinking Water Companies
Chapter 15

Industry
Chapter 16

Environment
Chapter 17

Power Plants
Chapter 18

National Impact Categories
Chapter 19

Estimating the Distribution of Monetary Benefits and Costs
Chapter 20

Scenarios
Part 3
Chapter 21

General Approach to Screening
Chapter 22

Screening of Technical and Managerial Tactics
Chapter 23

Screening of Price and Regulation Tactics
Chapter 24

General Approach to Designing Policies
Chapter 25

Design of Long-Run Pricing and Regulation Strategies
Chapter 26

Design of Managerial Strategies
Chapter 27

Design of Eutrophication Control Strategies
Chapter 28

Design of Policies and Cases for Impact Assessment
Chapter 29

Overview of Impact Assessment
Chapter 30

Extreme Impacts of the Primary Cases
Chapter 31

Average Impacts of the Primary Cases
Chapter 32

Sensitivity Case Impacts
Chapter 33

Consequences of PAWN
Part 4
Appendix
Glossary

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