Water Politics

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American West.

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Thomas T. Holyoke is Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow at the California Water Institute, both at California State University, Fresno. He is a specialist in the study of interest groups and lobbying as well as the development of western water policy. He is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters on interest group politics and the author of three books on these subjects.

Inhalt

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Policy Fragmentation

Part One: Eras of Survival and Accommodation

Chapter Two: Dreams of Reclamation

Chapter Three: Pressures to Adapt

Chapter Four: Politics of the Colorado River

Chapter Five: Great Projects and Great Controversies

Part Two: Era of Competition

Chapter Six: Environmentalism and Glen Canyon

Chapter Seven: California Cases

Chapter Eight: Native Water Rights and River Restorations

Chapter Nine: Groundwater Politics

Chapter Ten: Fragmented Policy and the Future

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