Divided Waters - Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Border

Divided Waters are everywhere intertwined, but the pattern of the braid varies. No pattern is more complex and convoluted than the fragmented legal and institutional structures encountered at the border.

About the author

Helen Ingram is the director of the Udall Center at the University of Arizona and coauthor of Water and Poverty in the Southwest. Nancy K. Laney is the deputy director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. David M. Gillilan is a research associate in the Department o Earth Resources at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Summary

Analyses the politics of water management along the US-Mexico border. The authors review the prevailing confusion of laws, administrative practices, and political incentives, and recommend the design elements they believe must be included before successful improvements can occur at both the institutional and the resource management levels.

Product details

• Authors: David M Gillilan, David M. Gillilan, Helen Ingram, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K Laney, Nancy K. Laney, Nancy R. Laney
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1995
• EAN: 9780816515646
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-1564-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches