Water and bureaucracy: origins of the federal responsibility for water resources, 1787-1838

Article Abstract:

The history of the administrative agencies controlling water resources is a search to find a balance between centralized, federal government planning and the desire for power at the local level. The water agencies' early history, from 1787 to 1838, was marked by three struggles: the one between advocates of centralized planning and those of local authority; a public distrust of technology, in this case of engineering; and a jurisdictional struggle between various government offices. The history of water policy is one of gradually increasing bureaucracy.

Natural resources

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Political obstacles to the implementation of emissions markets: lessons from RECLAIM

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The author uses the example of the Regional Clean Air Market for Los Angeles to demonstrate how government agencies block implementation of emissions trading markets. The development of a RECLAIM program for the Los Angeles Basin is traced, and suggestions for creating a functioning regional market are provided.

United States, Analysis, Planning, Environmental aspects, Air pollution control, Emissions credit trading, Emissions trading, Air quality management, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

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Emerging markets in water: a comparative institutional analysis of the Central Valley and Colorado-Big Thompson Projects

Article Abstract:

An argument that the underlying water allocation institutions account for differences in market activity in California's Central Valley and the Colorado-Big Thompson Project is made. The focus is on the path-dependent nature of water allocation institutions.

Colorado, History, Right of property, Property rights

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