Water Resources Management (Paperback)

Dave Feldman

ISBN 10: 0801851254 / ISBN 13: 9780801851254

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1995

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Paperback. This text argues that water resources decision-makers have traditionally made policies that favour development and economic efficiency over "noneconomic" principles such as fairness, environmental protection and concern for future generations. The result has been short-term economic gains for some regions at the expense of long-term economic benefits and ecological stability for society in general. Combining policy analysis, political theory and relevant cases in environmental history, this book challenges governments, interest groups, party platforms and elected officials to implement public policies that are truly ethical and rational. This text argues that water resources decision-makers traditionally make policies favouring development and economic efficiency over principles such as environmental protection, resulting in short-term economic gains at the expense of long-term economic benefits and ecological stability. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Water Resources Management (Paperback)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801851254
• ISBN 13: 9780801851254
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

"In one slim volume, Feldman has managed to combine a history of U.S. water policy, two in-depth case studies on the politics of water, an analysis of the institutional biases affecting U.S. water policy, and a discussion of water policy in France. Nor is that all. The opening and closing chapters of the work set this panoramic view of water policy within a normative framework derived from theorists as disparate as John Muir and John Rawls." -- Journal of Politics

About the Author

David Lewis Feldman served for many years as a faculty member at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville and is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy & Design at the School of Social Ecology, University of California–Irvine. He is the editor of Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies and Water Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic, both published by Johns Hopkins.