| Description |
1 online resource (432 pages) |
| Contents |
""About Island Press""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""WhatÃŒs the Big Deal, Anyway?""; ""The Loss of Instream Flows: A Short History of Water Use and Water Law in the West""; ""Instream Uses of Water""; ""How Much Water Should Be Left in Streams?""; ""Instream Flow Protection Issues in the States""; ""Methods the States Use to Protect Instream Flows""; ""Effect of Instream Flow Protection on Other Water Uses""; ""Federal Authorities and Approaches for Protecting Instream Flows""; ""Federal Water Development Programs Affecting Instream Flows"" |
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""Federal Environmental Protection Legislation and Programs Affecting Instream Flows""""Reaching a Balance in Water Allocation""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""; ""Island Press Board of Directors 1997"" |
| Summary |
Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous examples to illustrate their discussions, with case studies of major river systems including the Bitterroot, Clark's Fork, Colorado, Columbia, Mimbres, Mono Lake, Platte, Snake, and Wind. Policymakers, land and water managers at local, state, and federal levels, attorneys, students and researchers of water issues, and anyone concerned with instream flow protection will find the book enormously valuable |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rivers -- West (U.S.) -- Regulation
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Streamflow -- West (U.S.)
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Water use -- West (U.S.)
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Rivers -- Regulation
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Streamflow
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Water use
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West United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Thomas C
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| ISBN |
9781610910873 |
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1610910877 |
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