%0 Journal Article %A Daniel P. Bigelow %A Andrew J. Plantinga %A David J. Lewis %A Christian Langpap %T How Does Urbanization Affect Water Withdrawals? Insights from an Econometric-Based Landscape Simulation %D 2017 %R 10.3368/le.93.3.413 %J Land Economics %P 413-436 %V 93 %N 3 %X Effects on water resources are an understudied aspect of the environmental consequences of urbanization. We study how urban land development affects water withdrawals on a regional scale to account for market adjustments, human behavioral responses, and government institutions. Fine-scale econometric and simulation methods are used to represent the spatial heterogeneity associated with determinants of water withdrawals. Our analysis reveals a complicated relationship between future water withdrawals and changes in socioeconomic drivers. Despite population growth of approximately 85% and a doubling of income, water withdrawals in two urban areas increase by at most 12% and in another area, decrease slightly. (JEL Q24, Q25) %U https://le.uwpress.org/content/wple/93/3/413.full.pdf