TY - JOUR T1 - How Does Urbanization Affect Water Withdrawals? Insights from an Econometric-Based Landscape Simulation JF - Land Economics JO - Land Econ SP - 413 LP - 436 DO - 10.3368/le.93.3.413 VL - 93 IS - 3 AU - Daniel P. Bigelow AU - Andrew J. Plantinga AU - David J. Lewis AU - Christian Langpap Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/3/413.abstract N2 - 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) ER -