Ruling The Waters
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Ruling The Waters
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Author : Douglas R. Littlefield
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Ruling The Waters written by Douglas R. Littlefield and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
Impacts Of The Proposed Waters Of The United States Rule On State And Local Governments And Stakeholders
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Impacts Of The Proposed Waters Of The United States Rule On State And Local Governments And Stakeholders written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Abuse of administrative power categories.
Routledge Handbook Of Water Law And Policy
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Author : Alistair Rieu-Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-24
Routledge Handbook Of Water Law And Policy written by Alistair Rieu-Clarke and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Law categories.
Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for sound governance. The book reveals that significant progress has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of water resource management at different scales, including helping to address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary water resources. It demonstrates that ‘effective’ laws and policies are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable and sustainable utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources management is still hotly debated. As such, the handbook provides an important and definitive reference text for all studying water governance and management.
Rules To Prevent Collisions Of Vessels
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Author : United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
Rules To Prevent Collisions Of Vessels written by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Collisions at sea categories.
Pilot Rules For Certain Inland Waters Of The Atlantic And Pacific Coast And Of The Coast Of The Gulf Of Mexico
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Author : United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Pilot Rules For Certain Inland Waters Of The Atlantic And Pacific Coast And Of The Coast Of The Gulf Of Mexico written by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Ships categories.
Water Distribution Rules And Water Distribution Performance
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Author : Jeffrey Daniel Brewer
language : en
Publisher: IWMI
Release Date : 1997
Water Distribution Rules And Water Distribution Performance written by Jeffrey Daniel Brewer and has been published by IWMI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Irrigation categories.
Explores the relationship of water distribution rules to water distribution performance in the Tambraparani Irrigation System in India. Argues that if water distribution rules do not match the irrigation services desired by the users, the users subvert the rules to provide the water deliveries they require, with negative impacts on water distribution performance and equity, and the cost of irrigation.
Navigation Rules International Inland
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Author : United States. Coast Guard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Navigation Rules International Inland written by United States. Coast Guard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Inland navigation categories.
Water As A Human Right For The Middle East And North Africa
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Author : Asit K. Biswas
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2008
Water As A Human Right For The Middle East And North Africa written by Asit K. Biswas and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
This book systematically and comprehensively analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; its implications for the national governments, as well as the impact of the implementation of this concept for international and national organizations.
Navigation Rules Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Navigation Rules Gulf Intracoastal Waterway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Navigation categories.
Water
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Author : Katie Meehan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-02-08
Water written by Katie Meehan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-08 with Science categories.
Discover the hydrosocial cycle and the impact of power, knowledge, and scarcity on water rights and use through this engaging and student-friendly textbook In Water: A Critical Introduction, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an expert examination of our most pressing water-related challenges, arguing that flows of water are shaped by social practices and geometries of power. Combining first-hand research and headline case studies, the authors reveal the hydrosocial relations often hidden in mainstream accounts of water, delving into current issues like water scarcity, floods, global water governance, legal conflicts, human rights, potable water provision, health, the water-food-energy nexus, and much more. Spanning five centuries, this comprehensive volume reflects on how imperial expansion has shaped hydrosocial relations in and between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, how water demand has changed over time, and how this change impacted lifestyle. As the first major text to synthesize critical water research in both local and global perspectives, this book is anchored by clear and compelling arguments — the "four planks" — and supported by the authors' original research and up-to-date synthesis of the latest critical research on major water problems. It also includes maps, illustrations, and additional learning materials to be used by educators. Readers will find: A lively and thorough introduction that explains why a critical approach is necessary to fully understand our current water challenges, with a focus on the "skeptical superhero" A global approach to key debates in water issues, including large dams, privatization, transboundary conflicts, agriculture and irrigation, water and sanitation provision, human rights, governance dilemmas, and the Sustainable Development Goals Comprehensive explorations of the roles played by expert knowledge, global capital, climate change, and justice struggles in the hydrosocial cycle Critical theoretical perspectives that integrate environmental social sciences, feminist critique, and a broadly defined political economy with the specificities of water resources Fulsome treatments of water governance, science, and management, including the origins and implications of neoliberal approaches to the privatization, commodification, and financialization of water An accessible text that "invites the reader" on a critical journey Water: A Critical Introduction is a key text for advanced high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who want a keener understanding of trends in environmental management, political ecology, and water governance, science, and engineering. Written with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, this book will benefit students taking courses in environmental studies, environmental law, geopolitics, international studies, human geography, hydrology, engineering, environmental economics, and related disciplines.