Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Water Resources Management, Instream Flows, and Salmon Survival in the Columbia River Basin
Publisher: National Academy Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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Managing the Columbia River
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Water Resources Management, Instream Flows, and Salmon Survival in the Columbia River Basin
Publisher: National Academy Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: National Academy Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Water Quality of the Lower Columbia River Basin
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Energy and water development appropriations for fiscal year 1980
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Water Resources Management Program
Author: Washington (State). Department of Ecology. Water Resources Policy Development Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1980
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
Book Description
Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study
Legal Rights for Rivers
Author: Erin O'Donnell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429889607
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water resource management and environmental law. Giving rivers legal rights means the law can see rivers as legal persons, thus creating new legal rights which can then be enforced. When rivers are legally people, does that encourage collaboration and partnership between humans and rivers, or establish rivers as another competitor for scarce resources? To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers (EWMs). These organisations have legal personality, and have been active in water resource management for over two decades. EWMs operate by acquiring water rights from irrigators in rivers where there is insufficient water to maintain ecological health. EWMs can compete with farmers for access to water, but they can also strengthen collaboration between traditionally divergent users of the aquatic environment, such as environmentalists, recreational fishers, hunters, farmers, and hydropower. This book explores how EWMs use the opportunities created by giving nature legal rights, such as the ability to participate in markets, enter contracts, hold property, and enforce those rights in court. However, examination of the EWMs unearths a crucial and unexpected paradox: giving legal rights to nature may increase its legal power, but in doing so it can weaken community support for protecting the environment in the first place. The book develops a new conceptual framework to identify the multiple constructions of the environment in law, and how these constructions can interact to generate these unexpected outcomes. It explores EWMs in the USA and Australia as examples, and assesses the implications of creating legal rights for rivers for water governance. Lessons from the EWMs, as well as early lessons from the new ‘river persons,’ show how to use the law to improve river protection and how to begin to mitigate the problems of the paradox.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429889607
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water resource management and environmental law. Giving rivers legal rights means the law can see rivers as legal persons, thus creating new legal rights which can then be enforced. When rivers are legally people, does that encourage collaboration and partnership between humans and rivers, or establish rivers as another competitor for scarce resources? To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers (EWMs). These organisations have legal personality, and have been active in water resource management for over two decades. EWMs operate by acquiring water rights from irrigators in rivers where there is insufficient water to maintain ecological health. EWMs can compete with farmers for access to water, but they can also strengthen collaboration between traditionally divergent users of the aquatic environment, such as environmentalists, recreational fishers, hunters, farmers, and hydropower. This book explores how EWMs use the opportunities created by giving nature legal rights, such as the ability to participate in markets, enter contracts, hold property, and enforce those rights in court. However, examination of the EWMs unearths a crucial and unexpected paradox: giving legal rights to nature may increase its legal power, but in doing so it can weaken community support for protecting the environment in the first place. The book develops a new conceptual framework to identify the multiple constructions of the environment in law, and how these constructions can interact to generate these unexpected outcomes. It explores EWMs in the USA and Australia as examples, and assesses the implications of creating legal rights for rivers for water governance. Lessons from the EWMs, as well as early lessons from the new ‘river persons,’ show how to use the law to improve river protection and how to begin to mitigate the problems of the paradox.