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Water Governance Process Assessment : Evaluating the Link between Decision Making Processes and Outcomes in the Columbia River Basin

Creator:

Ogren, Kimberly

Abstract:

Academics and practitioners agree that in water governance, the quality of a decision making process should influence the quality of the outcome and the degree to which it is accepted by interested parties. However, finding a feasible way to evaluate and then improve the quality of a decision making process...

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Dissertation

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LIST OF TABLES Table Page Table 1. Broad frameworks for natural resource and
Mechanisms of cooperation for states' construction of large-scale water infrastructure projects in transboundary river basins

Creator:

Petersen-Perlman, Jacob D.

Abstract:

How does transboundary water cooperation begin at the initial stages? Countries in many transboundary basins either do not cooperate at all or have ceased cooperation altogether. Yet cooperation does often prevail, resulting in 688 water-related treaties signed between 1820 and 2007. The question we address here is, by which practices...

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Dissertation
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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Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Agricultural Water Enhancement Program Abstract approved