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Ready for Anything: Adaptive Capacity in Western States' Water Plans

Creator:

Cogan, Leah R.

Abstract:

In the western United States, climate change is likely to bring greater uncertainty and extreme events outside the range for which water infrastructure, governance, and allocation mechanisms have been designed. In addition, many water systems already struggle with issues of institutional fragmentation, ineffective governance, and unsustainable management practices. Adaptive capacity,...

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Masters Thesis

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Gosnell In the western United States, climate change is likely to bring greater uncertainty and
Beyond random acts of conservation : an institutional analysis of the Natural Resource Conservation Service's Agricultural Water Enhancement Program

Creator:

Burright, Harmony S. J.

Abstract:

Irrigated agriculture accounts for 90 percent of consumptive use of freshwater in the western US and is considered the largest contributor to nonpoint source water pollution. The diffuse nature of most water quality and quantity challenges necessitates institutions that can more effectively engage agricultural producers in strategic, integrated, watershed-scale approaches...

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Masters Thesis

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: Hannah Gosnell Irrigated agriculture accounts for 90 percent of consumptive use of freshwater in