Managing Competing Demands on a Scarce Natural Resource: Non-Market Allocation of Water in the Columbia River Basin

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/353
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Peters, Lon L.
Conference:	Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Duke University, Durham, NC
Conf. Date:	September 27-30, 1990
Date:	1990
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/353
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	water resources Columbia River rivers IASC
Abstract:	"The thesis of this paper is that our focus on coordination and planning has led to repeated failures to allocate water resources in the Columbia River Basin to their highest-valued uses, although there are limited examples of agencies beginning to rely on contractual understandings and trade-offs. These new understandings and the example of withdrawal rights exercized by irrigation districts can be expanded in the direction of market-based mechanisms."

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