Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) Fiscal Year 2012 Draft Annual Work Plans
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Final Environmental Assessment Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) Land Retirement Program Demonstration Project
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Interagency Land Retirement TeamPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen HanakPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
Author: Kurt SchwabePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940076636X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought awareness and experience, this book shows how scientists, water managers, and policy makers approach drought and water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions of Spain, Mexico, Australia, South Africa and the United States.
Integrated Flood Management
Author: The West without Water
Author: B. Lynn IngramPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954807
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is "normal" climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will continue into the future. The West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the region’s climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861–62. The authors show that, while the West may have temporarily buffered itself from such harsh climatic swings by creating artificial environments and human landscapes, our modern civilization may be ill-prepared for the future climate changes that are predicted to beset the region. They warn that it is time to face the realities of the past and prepare for a future in which fresh water may be less reliable.
California Water Plan Update
Author: California. Department of Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Adaptive Governance
Author: Ronald D. BrunnerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231136250
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Drawing case studies, the authors of this work examine how adaptive governance breaks the gridlock in natural-resource policy. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central authority, adaptive governance integrates other types of knowledge into the decision-making process. The authors emphasize the need for open decision making, recognition of multiple interests in questions of natural-resource policy, and an integrative, interpretive science to replace traditional reductive, experimental science.
Global Re-introduction Perspectives
Author: Pritpal S. SooraePublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 283171320X
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"This is the second issue in the Global Re-introduction Perspectives series and has been produced in the same standardized format as the previous one. The case-studies are arranged in the following order: Introduction, Goals, Success Indicators, Project Summary, Major Difficulties Faced, Major Lessons Learned, Success of Project with reasons for success or failure. For this second issue we received a total of 72 case-studies compared to 62 in the last issue. These case studies cover the following taxa as follows: invertebrates (9), fish (6), amphibians (5), reptiles (7), birds (13), mammals (20) and plants (12) ... We hope the information presented in this book will provide a broad global perspective on challenges facing re-introduction projects trying to restore biodiversity."--Pritpal S. Soorae.
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