Subject(s): Political Economy -- Resourse scarcity -- Principles: water management issues surveyed : political economy context of water pricing reforms, Political economy of institutional reforms in Pakistan's irrigation sector -- Problems : case studies of special difficulties in developing countries -- Selection through water markets , Willingness to pay for migratory species preservation- Premium for cooperative agreements and implications for policy, Economic instruments for water management in the presence of positive externalities in Rice based irrigation in Sri Lanka -- New methodology for measuring groundwater scarcity -Theory and applictaion, Contrasting different methodologies to deriving natural resources scarcity rents -- Policies -A case study of policy making for water management in Cyprus -- Watershed economics management approach, Water management in Cyprus through a decision-support system, Critical examination of the New Integrated European water protection regime