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Reflections on a century of water science and policy /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Carbondale, Ill. Universities Council on Water Resources 2000Description: 100 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 1548-3517
Other title:
  • Water Resources Update [no. 116] [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 628 13
LOC classification:
  • TC423 .W363
Other classification:
  • S WRMT.010 UCWR 2000 ASFPM
Online resources: Also available on the World Wide Web.
Contents:
Evolution of water resources "management" in the 20th century in the U.S. / Blair T. Bower -- Program evaluation and the purpose of rivers / Daniel W. Bromley -- Reflections on water policy and scholarship in economics / Emery Castle -- Early federal guidelines for water resource evaluation / Henry P. Caulfield, Jr. -- A half century in deep water / Robert K. Davis -- "Add water and stir": reflections of Leonard B. Dworsky / Leonard B. Dworsky -- Reflections on policy relevant research / Irving Fox -- The importance of property rights in water / B. Delworth Gardner -- Water system complexity and the misuse of modeling and optimization / Yacov Y. Haimes -- Benefit-cost analysis: 1933-1985 / Maynard M. Hufschmidt -- Reason and rationality in water politics / Helen Ingram -- Personal water perspectives: learning from the past / L. Douglas James -- Whatever happened to benefit-cost analysis? / Allen V. Kneese -- Water resources in the twentieth and one half century: 1950-2050 / Peter Rogers -- Thirty years of water and environmental economics / Clifford Russell -- Bargaining, analysis and water management / Leonard Shabman -- Are we still on the wrong road? / Warren Viessman, Jr. -- Appraising the results of our work / Gilbert F. White -- The outlook for water revisited / Nathaniel Wollman -- Thoughts on economic evaluation and the western water policy wars / Robert A. Young.
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"Special issue--100 years of water."

Evolution of water resources "management" in the 20th century in the U.S. / Blair T. Bower --
Program evaluation and the purpose of rivers / Daniel W. Bromley --
Reflections on water policy and scholarship in economics / Emery Castle --
Early federal guidelines for water resource evaluation / Henry P. Caulfield, Jr. --
A half century in deep water / Robert K. Davis --
"Add water and stir": reflections of Leonard B. Dworsky / Leonard B. Dworsky --
Reflections on policy relevant research / Irving Fox --
The importance of property rights in water / B. Delworth Gardner --
Water system complexity and the misuse of modeling and optimization / Yacov Y. Haimes --
Benefit-cost analysis: 1933-1985 / Maynard M. Hufschmidt --
Reason and rationality in water politics / Helen Ingram --
Personal water perspectives: learning from the past / L. Douglas James --
Whatever happened to benefit-cost analysis? / Allen V. Kneese --
Water resources in the twentieth and one half century: 1950-2050 / Peter Rogers --
Thirty years of water and environmental economics / Clifford Russell --
Bargaining, analysis and water management / Leonard Shabman --
Are we still on the wrong road? / Warren Viessman, Jr. --
Appraising the results of our work / Gilbert F. White --
The outlook for water revisited / Nathaniel Wollman --
Thoughts on economic evaluation and the western water policy wars / Robert A. Young.

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