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Embracing Watershed Politics

By: Edella Schlager

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As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In Embracing Watershed Politics, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and in some ways even desirable elements of decision making about water and watersheds. With decades of combined study of water management in the United States, they focus on the many contending interests and communities found in America's watersheds, the fundamental dimensions of decision making, and the impacts of science, complexity, and uncertainty on watershed management. Enriched by case studies of the organizations and decision making processes in several major U.S. watersheds (the Delaware River Basin, San Gabriel River, Platte River, and the Columbia River Basin), Embracing Watershed Politics presents a reasoned explanation of why there are so few watershed-scale integrated management agencies and how the more diverse multi-organizational arrangements found in the vast majorities of watersheds work. Although the presence of multiple organizations representing a multitude of communities of interest complicates watershed management, these institutional arrangements can-under certain conditions-suit the complexity and uncertainty associated with watershed management in the twenty-first century.

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University Press of Colorado

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0870819755

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9780870819759

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

By: William Blomquist,Edella Schlager,Tanya Heikkila

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Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

By: William Blomquist,Edella Schlager,Tanya Heikkila

This book is a firsthand investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West. It presents three states that have adopted the conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water to make resources go further in serving people and the environment. Yet conjunctive management has followed a different history, been practiced differently, and produced different outcomes in each state. The authors question why different results have emerged from neighbors trying to solve similar problems with the same policy reform. Common Waters, Diverging Streams makes several important contributions to policy literature and policymaking. The first book on conjunctive water management, it describes how the policy came into existence, how it is practiced, what it does and does not accomplish, and how institutional arrangements affect its application. A second contribution is the book's clear and persuasive links between institutions and policy outcomes. Scholars often declare that institutions matter, but few articles or books provide an explicit case study of how policy linkages work in actual practice. In contrast, Blomquist, Schlager, and Heikkila show how diverging courses in conjunctive water management can be explained by state laws and regulations, legal doctrines, the organizations governing and managing water supplies, and the division of authority between state and local government. Not only do these institutional structures make conjunctive management easier or harder to achieve, but they influence the kinds of problems people try to solve and the purposes for which they attempt conjunctive management.

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Routledge

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1136527109

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Embracing Watershed Politics

By: Edella Schlager

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The Practice of Constitutional Development

Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

By: Filippo Sabetti,Barbara Allen,Mark Sproule-Jones

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The Practice of Constitutional Development

Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

By: Filippo Sabetti,Barbara Allen,Mark Sproule-Jones

This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas. Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their leaders. On a higher theoretical level, the contributors emphasize the importance of choosing the rules of the political game in order to determine the nature of the game itself. Extending Ostrom's intellectual quest to solve constitutional dilemmas, the scholars gathered here discuss a wide variety of issues, ranging from the problems of water scarcity and local public economies in Africa to the prospect of a new political order in the European North.

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Lexington Books

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1461634458

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9781461634454

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

By: William Blomquist,Edella Schlager,Tanya Heikkila

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Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

By: William Blomquist,Edella Schlager,Tanya Heikkila

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Embracing Watershed Politics

Embracing Watershed Politics

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Embracing Watershed Politics

Embracing Watershed Politics

The Practice of Constitutional Development

The Practice of Constitutional Development

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

Common Waters, Diverging Streams

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