Author: Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Annual Report - Office of Water Resources Research
Author: United States. Office of Water Resources ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Water Quality Management Planning for Urban Runoff, Dec. 1974
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Runoff
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of Water Resources ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Water And Agriculture In The Western U.S.
Author: Gary WeatherfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000011038
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
One of the major questions facing the western U.S. is whether irrigation water can be conserved and reallocated to help meet increasing nonagricultural water demands. This book, based on interdisciplinary research in several states, identifies and analyzes the legal, political, economic, and social issues involved in a "conserve-and transfer" strategy. After providing an overview and policy framework for considering the role of conservation in water management, the authors use case studies to illustrate, for example, why water conservation is not a neutral policy or principle (demonstrating how other legitimate values can be adversely affected by a single-purpose pursuit of conservation); the various options available for conservation; how reallocation occurs in market transactions; and the legal restrictions on the sale of conserved surplus water. Although formal market mechanisms are found to be rudimentary or lacking in most areas of the West, the authors contend that more proficient markets will evolve to measure the economic value of agricultural water. They conclude that a "conserve-and-transfer" strategy is selectively workable through the use of incentives, but that a number of tradeoffs, social concerns, and institutional constraints, which have not been adequately recognized to date, will have to be dealt with by policymakers if the strategy is to have wider application.
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Nature and Resources
Author: WRRI News
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ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado
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Category : Experimental forests
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This report provides an overview of the research done on the Fraser Experimental Forest. It replaces GTR's no. 40 and 40A by Robert R. Alexander and Ross K. Watkins in 1977. Included are descriptions of physical features and resources, highlights of past and current research, and the publications derived from that research.