The Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management
Chino Basin, California
Authors: Blomquist, William
Free Preview- Presents groundwater issues, problems and solutions in the Chino Basin
- Discusses how the Chino Basin was removed from jeopardy and is exempt from the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
- Highlights a major water resource in a semi-arid environment, with a history of agriculture-to-urban transition, a large current population
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- About this book
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This book has three primary objectives. The first objective is to provide scholars with a more realistic view of adaptive management, without arguing against adaptive management. Adaptive management is necessary as well as desirable, but it is not easy, and demonstrating that through the Chino Basin experience is an important goal. The second objective is to provide practitioners with encouraging yet cautionary lessons about the challenges and benefits of an adaptive approach – in similar fashion as the first objective, the goal here is to endorse the adaptive approach but in a clear-eyed manner that clarifies how hard it is and how much it requires. A third objective is to show all audiences that resource governance systems can fail, change, and succeed. There is no such thing as an ideal institutional design that is guaranteed to work; rather, making institutional arrangements work entails learning and adjustment when they begin to show problems as they inevitably will.
- About the authors
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William Blomquist is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a Senior Research Fellow of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University - Bloomington. His research interests concern governmental organization and public policy, with a specialization in the field of water institutions and water management. His published books include Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California; Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado (with Edella Schlager and Tanya Heikkila); Integrated Water Resource Management through Decentralization (co-edited with Karin Kemper and Ariel Dinar); Embracing Watershed Politics (with Edella Schlager), and Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity (co-edited with Andreas Thiel and Dustin Garrick).
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Realities of Adaptive Management
Pages 1-11
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The Natural Physical System of Chino Basin
Pages 13-21
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The Development of Water Supplies and Water Conservation
Pages 23-30
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Upstream-Downstream Conflicts, 1930–1960
Pages 31-42
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Setting the Stage for a Chino Basin Management Program: Changes in Water Use, and the Third Santa Ana River Litigation, 1960–1969
Pages 43-52
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management
- Book Subtitle
- Chino Basin, California
- Authors
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- William Blomquist
- Series Title
- Global Issues in Water Policy
- Series Volume
- 27
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-63723-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-63723-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-63722-4
- Series ISSN
- 2211-0631
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 288
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
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