Searching out the headwaters : change and rediscovery in western water policy /

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To most Americans - and even to most Westerners - water policy seems to be a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve preci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: University of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Other Authors: Bates, Sarah F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Government policy > West (U.S.) > Congresses.
Environmental policy > West (U.S.) > Congresses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Environmental policy
Water-supply > Government policy
Wasserversorgung
Umweltpolitik
Aufsatzsammlung
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The West's Gordian Knot
  • 2. Water in a Changing West
  • 3. Voices
  • 4. The West Today
  • 5. River Basin Stories
  • 6. Losing Sight of the Headwaters
  • 7. The Journey to Rediscovery
  • 8. Change and Rediscovery in Western Water
  • Epilogue: History Need Not Repeat Itself
  • Appendix: The Language of Water.

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