Arizona water policy; management innovations in an urbanizing, arid region.1933115343 Arizona water policy; management innovations in an urbanizing, arid region. Ed. by Bonnie bon·ny also bon·nie adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots 1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty. 2. Excellent. G. Colby and Katharine L. Jacobs. Resources for the Future 2007 247 pages $65.00 Hardcover TD224 Colby (agricultural and resource economics, U. of Arizona) and Jacobs (executive director of the Arizona Water Institute, a consortium of Arizona's public universities) present 15 contributions that examine a range of Arizona's water management issues and policies from different disciplinary perspectives and consider their implications more for water management in arid and semiarid semiarid said of regions of the earth which have dry climates but not as dry as those of arid climates. regions around the world. Opening chapters review the importance of water to Arizona's history and describe the development of state and federal water laws. Others discuss the geography of water availability and use, issues of drought and climate variability, the economics of water transactions, the relationship between water policy and environmental sustainability, the "disconnect disconnect - SCSI reconnect " between water law and hydrology hydrology, study of water and its properties, including its distribution and movement in and through the land areas of the earth. The hydrologic cycle consists of the passage of water from the oceans into the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration (or , protection of water supply quality, implications of federal farm policy and state regulation on agricultural water use, urban and rural water supply and management, Arizona's recharge re·charge tr.v. re·charged, re·charg·ing, re·charg·es To charge again, especially to reenergize a storage battery. re and recovery programs, and tribal water claims and settlements within regional water management. The conclusion summarizes lessons drawn from the preceding discussions. Distributed in the US by Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. U. Press. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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