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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Perramond, Eric (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.