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Unsettled waters : rights, law, and identity in the American West /

"In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perramond, Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Colección:Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the cultures of water sovereignty in New Mexico
  • Unsettled waters : how water adjudication works, what it does, and what happens when it fails
  • The production of water expertise, the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences
  • Adjudicating the unknown future of New Mexico's water.