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Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought, Terry L. Anderson, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 121pp.

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought is an examination of what is asserted to be an imminent water crisis in light of a new resource economics framework. Appropriation doctrine and privatization is examined.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California, William Blomquist, (California: ICS Press, 1992), 402 pp.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California is an examination of the governance of groundwater in California. The issues addressed are common to all watersheds in the Western United States.

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future, ed. Peter Borrelli, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 324 pp.

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an examination of the trends in environmentalism, environmental activism, environmental litigation and eco-philosophy with the perspective of each of these areas.

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century, Gary D. Weatherford & F. Lee Brown, (eds), (New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 244pp.

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century is forwarded by Governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona. This work is an examination of the history and persistent issues surrounding the Colorado River which have erupted periodically in litigation and worse. The authors offer an assessment of the issues that those managing the Colorado River will likely be presented with in the coming century.

American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law, Lloyd Burton, (Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1991), 165pp.

American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law is a water policy study focused upon Native American water rights. The author examines the development of these rights and the resultant legal issues and dispute-managing methods for contemporary water rights conflicts.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law, Third edition, G. C. Coggins, C. F. Wilkinson, J. D. Leshy, (Westbury New York: The Foundation Press Inc., 1993), 1092pp.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law offers a succinct, yet comprehensive history of public lands prefatory to an in depth examination of authority on public lands and legal precedent concerning natural resources.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law, Carl F. Cranor, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 241 pp.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law is an examination of the need for, and methods of, assessment of toxic substances. The author addresses the legal, legislative, administrative, and tort issues surrounding toxic substances.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters, Robert G. Dunbar, (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 270pp.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters is an examination of the history and evolution of Western water rights as a modification of a property right. It begins with the history of the first irrigations in the West and concludes with an examination of the not uncontested right to appropriation.

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law, K. Foster, D. Bernstein, P. Huber, (eds), (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), 457 pp.

Phantom Risk examines two intersecting problems regarding risk assessment and tort law. The first problem is the disparity between the ease with which a controversy about a suspected occupational or environmental hazard can begin and the difficulty in resolving the nature of the connection, if any, between the suspected hazard and a health effect. The second problem is the confusion which results when such proposed hazards are brought in as grounds for litigation.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism, John G. Francis and Richard Ganzel, (eds), (New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984), 306 pp.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism is an examination of the current policies for the management of public lands in the Western United States. This is followed by consideration of selected natural resource issues.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection, David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Teresa A. Rice, (Colorado: Natural Resources Law Center, 1991, 134 pp.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection is an examination of the protection of water quality within the western water allocation systems. The authors examine present regulations and laws and recommend approaches for the future.

Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America, Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter, (Basic Books, 1990), 226 pp.

Politics by Other Means argues that American politics is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation: the importance of elections in contemporary American politics is decreasing, while the importance of institutional conflict is increasing. "Rather than seek to defeat their opponents chiefly by out mobilizing them in the electoral arena, contending forces are increasingly relying on such institutional weapons of political struggle as legislative investigations, media revelations, and judicial proceedings to weaken their political rivals and gain power for themselves."

Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards, Michael S. Greve &Fred L. Smith, Jr. (eds). (New York: Praeger, 1992), 201pp.

Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards is an examination of the "... use and abuse of environmental regulation for political and economic objectives that have little or nothing to do with the environment". It is a collection of the works of multiple authors.

The Concept of Law, H. L. A.. Hart, (Clarendon Press, 1961), with a postscript edited by Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz, 307pp.

The Concept of Law has had far reaching effects, not only on the thought and study of jurisprudence founded upon English common law, but on political and moral theory as well. It is a philosophical examination of the basis for law.

The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, Philip K. Howard, (New York: Random House, 1994), 202 pp.

The Death of Common Sense is an analysis of the excesses and deficiencies of regulatory law and bureaucratic process.

Colorado's Water Resources, League of Women Voters of Colorado, Inc., (Colorado: 1958), 48pp.

Colorado's Water Resources is an examination on Colorado's water supply, the legal bases for its use, the prospect of increasing the supply through engineering and conservative use, and the administration of water and water policy.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change, James McEvoy III and Thomas Dietz (eds), (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1977), 316 pp.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change is an examination of the social consequences caused by environmental changes. Specifically, the authors address the social impacts in the fields of: law, demography, land use, economics, and transportation.

Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law, David H. Rosenbloom and Richard D. Schwartz, (eds), (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1994), 560 pp.

Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law is an examination: of the evolution of the administrative state, trends in regulatory administration, and regulatory enforcement. The work is a collection of the works of multiple authors.

Water Law, Planning and Policy: Cases and Materials, Joseph L. Sax, (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1968), 508 pp.

Water Law, Planning and Policy: Cases and Materials is an examination of the planning for, and use of, water for any human purpose, and the quality issues surrounding such use in the light of two legal regimes in water law.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action, Joseph L. Sax, (New York: Borzoi Books, 1970), 252 pp.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action examines the implications for the democratic state of a representative government which delegates authority for the management of natural resources to agencies. Further, it is a proposal for political and environmental activism which will mitigate the problems caused by agency management of these resources.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Walter O. Spofford, Jr., Alfred L. Parker, and Allen V. Kneese, (eds), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1980), 541 pp.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin is a comprehensive examination of the effects on the species and habitat of the Colorado River Basin of the development of energy sources, both hydroelectric power development and surface coal mining. The text is supported by numerous tables, graphs, maps and charts.

Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, Fourth edition, A. D. Tarlock, J. N. Corbridge, Jr., D. H. Getches, (New York: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1993), 930pp.

Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, as the title states, is a casebook in water resource law. As such its focus is upon the adjudication of water resource laws and recent litigation regarding same.

Environmental Policy in the 1990s: Toward a New Agenda, N.J. Vig & M.E. Kraft (eds), (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990), 418pp.

Environmental Policy in the 1990s: Toward a New Agenda is a collection of readings and offers an overview of the change in environmental policy from the 1970s to the 1990s. It looks at the current public policy dilemmas, dispute resolution, global environmental policy and the philosophical basis for environmental politics.

The Limits of Law: The Public Regulation of Private Pollution, Peter Cleary Yeager, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 351 pp.

The Limits of the Law is an examination of the regulation of water quality. The author asserts that the present method would be improved upon if social and legal regulation were to be integrated.

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