Water policy and planning in a variable and changing climate. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kathleen A. Miller, Alan F. Hamlet, Douglas S. Kenney, Kelly T. Redmond.
• Editors: Miller, Kathleen A; Hamlet, Alan F; Kenney, Douglas S, 1964-; Redmond, Kelly T
• Contents: OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND; ; Introduction: The Context for Western Water Policy and Planning; Kathleen A. Miller, Alan F. Hamlet, and Douglas S. Kenney; ; Natural Variability, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and Impacts on Water Availability and Flood Extremes in the Western United States ; Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger, David Pierce, Tapash Das, Noah Knowles; F. Martin Ralph, and Edwin Sumargo; ; WATER POLICY ISSUES RELATED TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; ; Key Legal Issues in Western Water Management and Climate Adaptation ; Denise D. Fort; ; The West’s Water—Multiple Uses, Conflicting Values, Interconnected Fates ; David Lewis Feldman; ; Protection and Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems ; Brian D. Richter, Emily Maynard Powell, Tyler Lystash, and Michelle Faggert; ; Climate Variability and Adaptive Capacities of Intergovernmental; Arrangements: Encouraging Problem Solving and Managing Conflict ; Edella Schlager; ; Support for Drought Response and Community Preparedness: Filling the; Gaps between Plans and Action ; Kelly Helm Smith, Crystal J. Stiles, Michael J. Hayes, and Christopher J. Carparelli; ; Providing Climate Science to Real-World Policy Decisions: A Scientist’s; View from the Trenches ; Andrea J. Ray; ; Using the Past to Plan for the Future—The Value of Paleoclimate; Reconstructions for Water Resource Planning ; Connie A. Woodhouse, Jeffrey J. Lukas, Kiyomi Morino, David M. Meko; and Katherine K. Hirschboeck; ; CASE STUDIES: REGIONAL ISSUES AND INSIGHTS ON ADAPTATION PATHWAYS; ; The Columbia River Treaty and the Dynamics of Transboundary Water; Negotiations in a Changing Environment: How Might Climate Change Alter; the Game? ; Barbara Cosens, Alexander Fremier, Nigel Bankes, and John Abatzoglou; ; California, a State of Extremes: Management Framework for Present-Day; and Future Hydroclimate Extremes ; Jeanine Jones; ; California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta: Reflections on Science, Policy; Institutions, and Management in the Anthropocene ; Richard B. Norgaard; ; California’s Climate Change Response Strategy: Integrated Policy and Planning for Water, Energy, and Land ; Robert C. Wilkinson; ; California’s Irrigated Agriculture and Innovations in Adapting to Water Scarcity ; Heather Cooley; ; Responses of Southern California’s Urban Water Sector to Changing Stresses and Increased Uncertainty: Innovative Approaches ; Celeste Cantú; ; Climate Change and Allocation Institutions in the Colorado River Basin ; Jason A. Robison; ; Using Large-Scale Flow Experiments to Rehabilitate Colorado River Ecosystem Function in Grand Canyon: Basis for an Adaptive Climate-Resilient Strategy ; Theodore S. Melis, William E. Pine, III, Josh Korman, Michael D. Yard, Shaleen Jain; and Roger S. Pulwarty; ; Integration of Surface Water and Groundwater Rights: Colorado’s Experience ; Thomas V. Cech; ; Floods as Unnatural Disasters: The Role of Law ; Sandra B. Zellmer and Christine A. Klein; ; Adaptive Management and Governance Lessons from a Semiarid River; Basin: A Platte River Case Study ; Chadwin B. Smith, Jason M. Farnsworth, David M. Baasch, and Jerry F. Kenny; ; Drought as an Opportunity for Legal and Institutional Change in Texas ; Ronald Kaiser; ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 333.91; Municipal water supply; Climatic changes
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482227987
• Related ISBNs: 9781482227970
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