Instream Flow Protection
Instream Flow Protection

Author: David M. Gillilan

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1610910877

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Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous examples to illustrate their discussions, with case studies of major river systems including the Bitterroot, Clark's Fork, Colorado, Columbia, Mimbres, Mono Lake, Platte, Snake, and Wind. Policymakers, land and water managers at local, state, and federal levels, attorneys, students and researchers of water issues, and anyone concerned with instream flow protection will find the book enormously valuable.

Economic Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest
Economic Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest

Author: Laurie L. Houston

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1437933335

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Knowledge about the value of water to different users and methods with which to evaluate biophysical, economic, ecological, and social tradeoffs associated with allocating limited water resources among competing uses is vital to devising appropriate and effective water resource policies. Intended primarily for non-economists, this report reviews existing water resource economics literature (as of 2002) concerning the economic value of water in different uses in the Pacific Northwest, the evaluation of tradeoffs among uses, and the use of economic incentives for water conservation and protection or enhancement of water quality. Includes an annotated bibliography of water resource economics research.