Setting a Value for Water

The 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm will host the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Water Resources Economics Consortium (IWREC), between 28 and 29 August. The meeting will provide insights from global thought leaders at a Chief Economists Panel, and will give partici-pants at the Week an opportunity to learn from leading experts on the use of economics in water management and decision-making. In this article, John Joyce, Senior Water Economist at SIWI and Chair of the IWREC Programme Committee explains why it is important to take the economics dimension into account in the global water debate.

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 2, 2012