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Resource allocation under stress: the Snake River in Idaho

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Title Resource allocation under stress: the Snake River in Idaho
Creator Slaughter, Richard A.
Date 2012-06-25
Coverage Snake River
Subject water supply; water resources development; irrigation water; Snake River; water use -- Idaho; water resources development -- Idaho -- Government policy; water in agriculture; appropriation; irrigation; appropriation; climate adaptation; institutional adaptation; water resource development; social policy; development; governance; property rights
Description The debate over management of and adaptation to climate change tends to focus on expert regulation vs. private exploitation. A third path is available: an institutional set in which preferred behaviors are automatically encouraged by shared resource ownership. In water, for example, users can be joint owners of a resource rather than customers of a utility or subject to a regulatory agency. User behavior differs markedly between the two situations. This book is a study of the Snake River...
Contributor Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington; IWRRI; Slaughter, Richard A.; Wiener, John D.; Contor, Bryce A.; Schmidt, R.D.; Creamer, Michael C.; Cosgrove, Donna M., Johnson, Gary S.; Tuthill, David R.; Fereday, Jeffrey C.; Rigby, Jerry R.
Publisher University of Idaho
Language eng
Rights Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Identifier http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/idahowater/id/147

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