"This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services. How should decisions be made between water use for electricity...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins of CBA of Wter Use Conflicts -- 3 A Simple Cost-Benefit Rule -- 4 The Main Items in the Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5 Towards Empirical Measurement of Externalities -- 6 Blueprint for a CBA -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- 8 References -- 9 Appendices -- Index

Should more water be diverted to or from electricity generation? This timely question is addressed in this short volume. Two different approaches are introduced and compared: The first is a cost-benefit analysis, examining the case of re-regulating a Swedish hydropower plant in which water is...