PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Daniel P. Bigelow AU - Andrew J. Plantinga AU - David J. Lewis AU - Christian Langpap TI - How Does Urbanization Affect Water Withdrawals? Insights from an Econometric-Based Landscape Simulation AID - 10.3368/le.93.3.413 DP - 2017 Aug 01 TA - Land Economics PG - 413--436 VI - 93 IP - 3 4099 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/3/413.short 4100 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/3/413.full SO - Land Econ2017 Aug 01; 93 AB - 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)