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Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with
development and the extent to which state senators respond to
voters' concerns. Originally published in 1980
This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political
battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally
published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand
function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests
procedures for rational pricing of municipal water, and explains
how politics can dominate when real decisions are made. Due to the
additional virtue of this title being easy to read, it is ideal for
students interested in environmental studies, economics, and policy
making, as well as for those involved with municipal services and
resource management in general.
This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political
battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally
published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand
function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests
procedures for rational pricing of municipal water, and explains
how politics can dominate when real decisions are made. Due to the
additional virtue of this title being easy to read, it is ideal for
students interested in environmental studies, economics, and policy
making, as well as for those involved with municipal services and
resource management in general.
Explores the contradictions between the American ideal of equality
and the realities of public policy.
This study recommends a definition of "decision support" that
emphasizes communication rather than translation and a strategy by
which the small NOAA Sectoral Applications Research program can
advance decision support. The book emphasizes that seasonal climate
forecasts provide fundamentally new kinds of information and that
integrating this information into real-world decisions will require
social innovations that are not easily accomplished. It recommends
that the program invest in (a) research to identify and foster the
innovations needed to make information about climate variability
and change more usable in specific sectors, including research on
the processes that influence success or failure in the creation of
knowledge-action networks for making climate information; (b)
workshops to identify, catalyze, and assess the potential of
knowledge-action networks in particular resource areas or decision
domains; and (c) pilot projects to create or enhance these networks
for supporting decisions in climate-affected sectors. It recommends
that evaluation of the program be addressed with a monitoring
approach. Table of Contents Front Matter Executive Summary 1
Introduction: The Sectoral Applications Research Program 2 Climate
Forecasts as Innovations and the Concept of Decision Support 3
Use-Inspired Science and Communication 4 Principles for Selecting
Activities and Modes of Support 5 Evaluating SARP References
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the
United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with
ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by
new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the
politics of water management along the U.S.-Mexico border, using
the case of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as a window on the
problems and possibilities involved. The authors explore the water
problems that Ambos Nogales shares with larger border communities
surface and groundwater contamination, inadequate and insecure
supplies, inequitable distribution of resources, flooding, and
endangered riparian habitats considering both the physical
characteristics of the water supply and the coping mechanisms of
the people who make use of it. They review the prevailing confusion
of laws, administrative practices, and political incentives, then
recommend the design elements they believe must be included before
successful improvements can occur at both the institutional and the
resource management levels.
Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction
between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an
underclass of marginalized and disadvantaged people who are widely
viewed as undeserving and incapable. "Deserving and Entitled
provides a close inspection of may different policy arenas, showing
how the use of power and the manipulation of images have made it
appear both natural and appropriate that some target populations
benefit from policy, while others do not not. These social
constructions of deserved ness and entitlement, unless challenged,
become amplified over time and institutionalized into permanent
lines of social, economic, and political cleavage.
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