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Water and Climate in the Western United States

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2003

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Water and Climate in the Western United States highlights the opportunity for and necessity of change in management of water, the West's most crucial resource. As old policies and institutions fail to meet changing demands for and availability of w

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A professor of environmental studies, William M. Lewis Jr. directs the Center for Limnology at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Acronyms and abbreviations

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    Preface

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    Introduction

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  • Part One Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of Climate
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    One Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What Are Our Prospects?

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    Randall M. Dole
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    Two Climate Variability in the west: Complex Spatial Structure Associated With Topography, and Observational Issues

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    Kelly T. Redmond
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    Three Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability

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    Connie A. Woodhouse
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    Four Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Date

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    Rene Reitsma and Phil Pasteris
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  • Part Two Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hygrology
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    Five Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecastion Water Supply in the Western United States

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    Martyn P. Clark, Lauren E. Hay, Gregory J. Mccare, Grorge H. Leavesley, Mark C. Serreze and Robert T. Wilby
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    Six Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Western United States

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    Kenneth M. Strzepek and David N. Yates
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    Seven Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-Range Climate Forecastes: The Pacific Northwest Experience

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    Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Alan F. Hamlet
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    Eight Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hygrology Reached Its Full Potential?

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    John Labadie and Luis Garcia
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  • Part Three Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and Climate Change
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    Nine What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and Change?

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    Eugene Stakhiv
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    Ten Managemant of Colorado River Resources

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    Terrance J. Fulp
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    Eleven Water Development and Management Along the South Platte River of Colorado

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    Tom Cech
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    Twelve Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water Management?

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  • Part Four Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water
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    Thirteen A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the Interior West

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    Fourteen Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western Water

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    David H. Getches
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    Fifteen Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adaptiong to Water-Resource Effects of Climate Change

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    John Loomis, Jessica Koteen and Brian Hurb
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    Sixteen Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues

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    Kathleen Miller and Steven Gloss
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  • Part Five Analyzing the Analysts
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    Seventeen Western Water Resources and “Climete of Opinion” Variables

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    Limerick Patricia Nelson
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    About the contributors

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    Index

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