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Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues, Donald D. Adams and Walter P. Page (eds.), (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), 521 pp.

Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues is a comprehensive, if not exhaustive, examination of acid deposition and its effects on endangered species and habitat preservation, and water resources. This work constitutes an expanded version of the proceedings of the Conference on Acid Deposition: Environmental and Economic Impact, held in Plattsburgh, New York in 1983.

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.

The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management, William L. Graf, (Washington, DC: The Association of American Geographers, 1985), 86pp.

The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management is an examination of the management of the Colorado River Basin in the presence of multiples instabilities. The work contains an evaluation of significant trends and suggestions for future management.

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.

Land Degradation and Society, Piers Blaikie & Harold Brookfield, (London: Methuen & Co Inc., 1987), 284pp.

Land Degradation and Society is an examination of the land degradation problem and approaches to mitigation, and the cost involved in such mitigation. Blaikie and Brookfield acknowledge the significant contributions made by multiple authors to whom they attribute several chapters.

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.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, Committee on Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems, Water Science and Technology Board and Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources National Research Council, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 147pp.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience is an examination of the problem of irrigation-induced water quality problems using the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge and its build-up of toxic levels of selenium as an example. This work examines the scientific and institutional dimensions of the problem and offers methods for resolution.

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.

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.

Water in Crisis, PH Gleick (ed), (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 473pp.

Water in Crisis is an exhaustive examination of global fresh water issues. It is a collection of readings making the work offered on each topic free-standing.

Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions, William L. Graf, (Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1990) 329 pp.

Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions explores the history of conflicts between wilderness preservation and commodity users over the use of federal lands in the West. This history touches on a number of environmental issues, including wildlife and habitat preservation, development and growth pressures, and water rights.

Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity, Constance Elizabeth Hunt, with Verne Huser, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 250 pp.

Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity is a careful study of the effects of federal projects on biodiversity in multiple riparian systems which have been the subject of federal projects and policies.

Water and Poverty in the Southwest, F. Lee Brown and Helen M. Ingram, (Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1987), 217 pp.

Water and Poverty in the Southwest is an examination of the effects that water allocation and distribution has upon the rural poor in the Southwestern United States. It addresses issues affecting Native American and Hispanic peoples.

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley, William L. Kahrl, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 574pp.

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley while ostensibly concerning California water issues inapplicable to water issues in the Western United States in general. This work is an examination of both the politics and causes of the problems surrounding water resource allocation.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management, Sheldon Kamieniecki, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), 126 pp.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management is the text of a research project undertaken to assess public participation in environmental policy-making and political leaders' predictions of citizens' views.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy, Henry C. Kenski, (California: Regina Books, 1990), 156 pp.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy is an examination of the development of groundwater into a political issue and the subsequent Federal, State and local attempts to protect this resource.

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.

Terrestrial Ecosystems, John D. Aber & Jerry M. Melillo, (Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1991).

Terrestrial Ecosystems is the text chosen by Dr. Tim Seastedt for the EPO Biology course Ecosystem Ecology (EPOB 4170/5170). Aber and Melillo present the overview of ecosystems necessary to understand environmental problems affecting those ecosystems.

The Salty Colorado, Taylor O. Miller, Gary D. Weatherford, John E. Thorson, (Washington DC: The Conservation Foundation Press, 1986), 93pp.

The Salty Colorado, is an in depth examination of the salinity problem inthe Colorado River Basin. It addresses: the problem itself, a catalog ofmitigation efforts already attempted, and future possibilities.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner, (New York: Viking, 1986), 564 pp.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a history and an examination of the importance of water to the Western United States. The author addresses water use issues from the earliest settlement of the West by Europeans to the contemporary problem of increasing salinity in the Colorado River Basin.

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.

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.

Climate Change and US Water Resources, Paul E. Waggoner (ed), (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990), 477pp.

Climate Change and US Water Resources is a careful examination of the effect of the greenhouse effect (global warming as a result of increases in CO2 and ozone depletion) on the supply of and demand for water resources. The work is comprised of multiple free-standing essays.

Hazardous Waste Site Management: Water Quality Issues, Water Science and Technology Board, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1988), 201pp.

Hazardous Waste Site Management: Water Quality Issues is a collection of papers which were presented at a 1985 Water Sciences and Technology Board colloquium series which focused on emerging issues in water science and technology.

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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