1st Edition

Water Politics The Fragmentation of Western Water Policy

By Thomas T. Holyoke Copyright 2024
210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west. It describes its origins, how it became about building big projects, and how it was fragmented by pressures from environmental activism. The book also explores the western water crisis in the United States. The case studies used in here will help readers... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Policy Fragmentation

Part One: Eras of Survival and Accommodation

Chapter Two: Dreams of Reclamation

Chapter Three: Pressures to Adapt

Chapter Four: Politics of the Colorado River

Chapter Five: Great Projects and Great Controversies

Part Two: Era of Competition

Chapter Six: Environmentalism and Glen Canyon

Chapter Seven: California Cases

Chapter Eight: Native Water Rights and River Restorations

Chapter Nine: Groundwater Politics

Chapter Ten: Fragmented Policy and the Future

Glossary

Biography

Thomas T. Holyoke is Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow at the California Water Institute, both at California State University, Fresno. He is a specialist in the study of interest groups and lobbying as well as the development of western water policy. He is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters on interest group politics and the author of three books on these subjects.