State of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary 2006
Author: Lisa Owens-Viani
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 90
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-09-19
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 0309212316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, channelization, pumps, human development, introduced species, dams on its tributary streams and contaminants. The Delta supplies water from the state's wetter northern regions to the drier southern regions and also serves as habitat for many species, some of which are threatened and endangered. The restoration of water exacerbated tensions over water allocation in recent years, and have led to various attempts to develop comprehensive plans to provide reliable water supplies and to protect the ecosystem. One of these plans is the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The report, A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan, determines that the plan is incomplete in a number of important areas and takes this opportunity to identify key scientific and structural gaps that, if addressed, could lead to a more successful and comprehensive final BDCP. The plan is missing the type of structure usually associated with current planning methods in which the goals and objectives are specified, alternative measure for achieving the objectives are introduced and analyzed, and a course of action in identified based on analytical optimization of economic, social, and environmental factors. Yet the panel underscores the importance of a credible and a robust BDCP in addressing the various water management problems that beset the Delta. A stronger, more complete, and more scientifically credible BDCP that effectively integrates and utilizes science could indeed pave the way toward the next generation of solutions to California's chronic water problems.
Author: California. State Lands Commission
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter S. Alagona
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0520954416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species—the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox—Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 726
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 712
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