Water: Crisis, Conflict, and Rational Thinking
Frank Fisher
Mon Jan 7, 01-02:30pm, E51-372
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
It is often said that the next war will be about water, but rational thinking shows that this is not true. An optimizing model has been built for Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, leading to a powerful method for the cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure and, more significantly, to a valuation of water ownership and a method of win-win conflict resolution.
Web: http://econ-www.mit.edu
Contact: Melissa Maney, E52-380, 252-1565, mbegley@mit.edu
Sponsor: Economics
Latest update: 01-Nov-2001
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