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Author : United States. National Water Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015004604180
Author : United States. National Water Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000068318686
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Project Planning Procedures
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309174046
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has long been one of the federal government's key agencies in planning the uses of the nation's waterways and water resources. Though responsible for a range of water-related programs, the Corps's two traditional programs have been flood damage reduction and navigation enhancement. The water resource needs of the nation, however, have for decades been shifting away from engineered control of watersheds toward restoration of ecosystem services and natural hydrologic variability. In response to these shifting needs, legislation was enacted in 1990 which initiated the Corps's involvement in ecological restoration, which is now on par with the Corps's traditional flood damage reduction and navigation roles. This book provides an analysis of the Corps's efforts in ecological restoration, and provides broader recommendations on how the corps might streamline their planning process. It also assesses the impacts of federal legislation on the Corps planning and projects, and provides recommendations on how relevant federal policies might be altered in order to improve Corps planning. Another important shift affecting the Corps has been federal cost-sharing arrangements (enacted in 1986), mandating greater financial participation in Corps water projects by local co-sponsors. The book describes how this has affected the Corps-sponsor relationship, and comments upon how each group must adjust to new planning and political realities.
Author : David Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351685467
The prosperity and national security of the United States depend directly on the prosperity and stability of both partner and competing countries around the world. Today, U.S. interests are under rising pressure from water scarcity, extreme weather events and water-driven ecological change in key geographies of strategic interest to the U.S. Those water-driven stresses are undermining economic productivity, weakening governance systems and fraying social cohesion in scores of countries and, in the process, undermining the vitality of rural livelihoods, fostering local and ethnic conflicts, driving broad migratory movements and contributing to the growth of insurgencies and terrorist networks. While the U.S. intelligence community has steadily expanded natural resource concerns in their global threat analyses, our overseas development assistance remains locked into provision of water and hygienic services rather than responding to the full sweep of global water challenges including governance and policy failures, growing conflicts over water and the need for promoting sustainable transboundary water arrangements in partner countries. A fundamental departure from the past is urgently needed. Based on 18 case studies, Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy provides an analytical framework to help policy makers, scholars and researchers studying the intersection of U.S. foreign policy with the environment and sustainability issues, interpret the impacts of water-driven social disruptions on the stability of partner governments and U.S. interests abroad. The book also delivers specific recommendations to reorient U.S. development and diplomatic engagements that can forestall and prevent social disruptions and ensuing threats to U.S. prosperity and national security.
Author : Juliet Christian-Smith,Peter H. Gleick,Heather Cooley,Lucy Allen,Amy Vanderwarker,Kate A. Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199859450
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 as a nation need to do to manage our most vital resource. In this book, leading thinkers at world-class water research institution the Pacific Institute present clear and readable analysis and recommendations for a new federal water policy to confront our national and global challenges at a critical time. What exactly is at stake? In the 21st century, pressures on water resources in the United States are growing and conflicts among water users are worsening. Communities continue to struggle to meet water quality standards and to ensure that safe drinking water is available for all. And new challenges are arising as climate change and extreme events worsen, new water quality threats materialize, and financial constraints grow. Yet the United States has not stepped up with adequate leadership to address these problems. The inability of national policymakers to safeguard our water makes the United States increasingly vulnerable to serious disruptions of something most of us take for granted: affordable, reliable, and safe water. This book provides an independent assessment of water issues and water management in the United States, addressing emerging and persistent water challenges from the perspectives of science, public policy, environmental justice, economics, and law. With fascinating case studies and first-person accounts of what helps and hinders good water management, this is a clear-eyed look at what we need for a 21st century U.S. water policy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : UCR:31210025589696
Materials distributed to participants of the workshop.
Author : Clifford S. Russell,Duane D. Baumann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781848449367
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. While the historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, the book concentrates on the past 60 years and features a discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into collaboration in the water resource context. The book explores the evolution of water related analytical capabilities and institutions and provides illustrations from case studies, concluding with recommendations for research, institutional change and action. Though designed to be a background textbook for interdisciplinary graduate seminars in water resources planning and management, it is accessible to interested lay readers and those who have policymaking or implementation responsibility but lack a technical background. The book will appeal to students and faculty in water policy, economics, and engineering, and in interdisciplinary programs organized around water resource problems and questions. Policy makers and general readers will also appreciate this non-technical introduction.
Author : Oliver A. Houck
Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Water
ISBN : 1585760382
The definitive guide to all there is to know about the TMDL requirements of clean water legislation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001481179
Author : Dustin E Garrick,George R M Anderson,Daniel Connell,Jamie Pittock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781781955055
This book provides a critical analysis of the impact of borders and divided governance on large rivers in federal political systems. The OECD has identified the global water crisis as one of governance and policy fragmentation. Population and economic
Author : Eston T. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : National security
ISBN : PURD:32754076923899
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Water
ISBN : UCAL:B5138415
Author : Ira G. Clark
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826309232
The most comprehensive reference on the state's most precious resource is now back in print.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32437010583744
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:35007000166870
