Water Resources Allocation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol

   Pages 1-9

3. Water Resources in Cyprus: Endowments and Water Management Practices

   • Iacovos Iacovides

   Pages 11-21

4. Water Use Patterns in Cyprus and Demand Management: Towards Water Resources Sustainability

   • Iacovos Iacovides

   Pages 23-31

5. The Implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive in Cyprus

   • Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri, Kyriaki Remoundou

   Pages 33-43

6. Water Management: Administration and Legislation

   • Iacovos Iacovides

   Pages 45-63

7. Water Policy Networks: A New Form of Governance for Cyprus? The Case of Nicosia

   • Anthi Dionissia Brouma, Cahit Ezel

   Pages 65-87

8. The Economics of Water Resource Allocation: Valuation Methods and Policy Implications

   • Ben Groom, Phoebe Koundouri

   Pages 89-109

9. Integrated Water Resources Planning in Cyprus

   • George Socratous

   Pages 111-124

10. Water Pricing Policy in Cyprus: The Implications of the Water Framework Directive

    • George Socratous

    Pages 125-139

11. Water Resources Management and Wetland Conservation: The Case of Akrotiri Wetland in Cyprus

    • Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri, Yiannis Koundouris

    Pages 141-155

12. Facing the Future: Concluding Remarks

    • Phoebe Koundouri, Ekin Birol, Cahit Ezel

    Pages 157-162

13. Erratum to: Chapter 10 Water Resources Management and Wetland Conservation: The Case of Akrotiri Wetland in Cyprus

    • Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri, Yiannis Koundouris

    Pages E1-E1

14. Back Matter

    Pages 163-164

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The dilemma facing Cyprus—that of limited water supplies (both in terms of quantity and quality) in the face of steadily increasing water demand, coupled with a fragmented institutional structure of the water sector—is characteristic of most arid and semi-arid countries all over the world. Another common characteristic of Cyprus is that the water management administrative boundaries there do not coincide with the hydrological ones, while the ongoing political problem of the island creates significant administration problems.

• EU Water Framework Directive implementation
• Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Political versus Hydro-geological boundaries
• Water Demand Management and Pricing
• water policy

From the reviews:

“The book is a part of the Global Issues in Water Policy Series and is valuable in promoting further studies on the theory, practice and policy of water resources management, for Cyprus and other arid and semi-arid regions. … This book will be useful and interesting to international hydrologists, agriculturalists, water resources engineers, hydrogeologists, environmentalists, policy makers and government officials. I would certainly recommend this book to them. Anyone who reads this collection will gain something useful from it.” (Peiyue Li, Water Resources Management, April, 2014)

• Department of International and European Economic Studies (DIEES), Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  Phoebe Koundouri

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