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A twenty-first century US water policy /
It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Soft Path for Water; 1. The Water of the United States: Freshwater Availability and Use; 2. Legal and Institutional Framework of Water Management, Juliet Christian-Smith and Lucy Allen; 3. Water and Environmental Justice; 4. Tribes and Water; 5. Water Quality; 6. Protecting Freshwater Ecosystems; 7. Municipal Water Use; 8. Water and Agriculture; 9. Water and Energy; 10. Water and Climate; 11. United States International Water Policy; 12. Conclusions and Recommendations.