IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESS:

LESSONS FROM THE 1988-?? CALIFORNIA DROUGHT


Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction :Relevance of the California Experience to the Future of the American West

Lloyd Burton

Chapter One: Allocating Water Shortages: A Case Study of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project in California

Larry MacDonnell

Chapter Two:Institutional Innovation in Drought Response

Charles Howe with the assistance of D. Jay Goodman

Chapter Three:Disputing Distributions in a Shrinking Commons: The Impact of Drought on Water Allocation Institutions

Lloyd Burton

Chapter Four:Water Supply System Adjustments to Drought

Lynn E. Johnson

Chapter Five:Decision Support Systems (DSS) for Environmental Conflicts: Tools for Establishing a Base for Negotiation

René Reitsma

Chapter Six: Social Conflict Constraints on Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons from the 1988-199? California Drought

Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

Conclusion

Lloyd Burton

Bibliography