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Climate Change Impacts
Western Climate Initiative (a collaboration launched in February 2007 between the Governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington
to meet regional challenges raised by climate change)
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Governance (rules and markets, etc.) - NM and Southwest
Western Progress (February 2008). A New Western Water Agenda. This report, by Lawrence MacDonald and Denise Fort, recommends several broad policy proposals for reducing water use in
Western states in order to achieve sustainability. According to some readers, many of these seem to represent the "conventional
wisdom" rather than being "new." For instance, the report's advocacy of more efficient processes to transfer water from agricultural
to "urban and environmental" uses embodies rather than challenges common assumptions about population growth ("it can't be
slowed") and irrigated agriculture (as inherently inefficient and environmentally detrimental). Along the way, however,
the report presents a useful review of the current institutional landscape and of the challenges posed by climate change throughout
the West. An Appendix provides an annotated list of earlier reports, including policy proposals, prepared for intergovernmental
organizations since the 1970s.
Thoughtful commentaries on this report or other topics are welcome. Click here to send us an email with - or attaching - your comments. Pertinent responses will be uploaded to this site and links
will be added to this page. (If this feature gets a good response, we are considering starting a weblog, tentatively the WaterDiaBlog.) - JB
Click here to view comments.
Land Use and
Water
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