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Vega, Isaac Manuel Ferrera, and Isaac Manuel Ferrera Vega. "Making Water Policy in Developing Countries: Water Resources in Tegucigalpa." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626795.

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The management of water resources around the world, and especially in countries with limited financial resources involves challenges that defy the sustainability and equitative use of the water. Governments have tended to respond through legislation to restrict uses and to redirect water management decisions to the Government itself. However, these fixed responses have proved not being effective due to the limited presence of central governments in the different watersheds. Consequences of this type of setting are a poor understanding of the hydrological issues, poor sustainability
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Williams, Sarah Elizabeth. "The agriculture-water interface : policy integration and the environment." Thesis, University of Hull, 1997. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3490.

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Although current environmental policies may prove successful against narrowly defined criteria of economic, social or environmental sustainability, it is by no means certain that the sustainability of inter-dependent economic and environmental systems will be assured. In fact, policy intervention may result in the displacement of environmental problems to other media, times or places. Farmers are the focus for divergent forces of state, market and social regulation and in consequence their response, or more importantly non-response, to environmental policies cannot be assessed in isolation. Th
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Aboelata, Maged. "Object-oriented modeling framework for water resources policy analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0010/MQ32042.pdf.

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Shahjahan, Mosharefa. "Integrated management of water resources in Bangladesh /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envs525.pdf.

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Mott, Lacroix Kelly, Bailey Kennett, Ashley Hullinger, Christopher Fullerton, Mark Apel, and William Brandau. "Wet Water and Paper Water in the Upper Gila River Watershed." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625412.

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5 pp.<br>As one of Arizona’s principal surface water systems, the Gila River has and will continue to be a valuable and highly sought after water source. The river, its tributaries, and underlying groundwater reserves have enabled a robust farming, ranching, and mining heritage, while providing a rich and diverse riparian landscape in an arid region. However, as much as these water resources have shaped the history of the watershed, a variety of legal, economic, and climatic uncertainties will undoubtedly – and potentially drastically – influence future water supplies. An understanding of the
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Mulder, Marthinus Wessel. "A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa's water policy (1998 - 2001)." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09122005-153357/.

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Rich, James Joseph. "An Implementation Analysis of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1267.

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Implementation research, an area once largely ignored in favor of policy design and impact assessment, now constitutes a significant portion of the policy analysis literature. One of the key issues addressed by the theory building portion of that literature is the necessity of precisely identifying implementation variables, conditions, or actions that measurably contribute to the success or failure of implementation efforts over a broad range of policies and programs, and to then suggest some order of significance. In order to test the validity of a variable set proposed by the literature, a m
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Bradley, Dorotha Myers. "A policy approach to federalism cases of public lands and water policy /." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_e9791_1986_347_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Murase, Masahiko. "A Study on the Development of Robust Water Resources Policy in Japan." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/157625.

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Mason, Pamela Anne. "The Standing Stock of Organic Matter in a Man-Made Brackish Marsh and its Resource Management Implications." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617607.

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Craig, Martha. "Land use and Wetland Function: A Sensitivity Analysis of the VIMS Nontidal Wetland Functional Assessment Method." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617640.

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Amornvivat, Sutapa 1974. "Infrastructure investment and policy management of water resources for small-scale irrigated agriculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29545.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology, Management, and Policy Program, 2003.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-167).<br>We investigate the options for enhancing the welfare of small farmers in Thailand through subsidies of irrigation infrastructure. Enhanced water storage and irrigation can significantly improve yield and the welfare of the farm community by providing a m
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Popely, Deborah R. "Strategies to Maintain Adequate Hotel Water Supplies." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5931.

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Hotel guests can use 2 to 3 times more water than community residents. Hotels are water-intensive businesses, and water scarcity presents a pressing problem for managers who rely on an uninterrupted supply of water to meet guests' needs and maintain profitability. Using the resource-based view (RBV) as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that hotel managers used to successfully maintain adequate water supplies in the Spanish Canary Islands, an historically arid site and a tourism destination. Data were collected from semistructu
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Fontenele, Karine Machado Campos. "Analysis of Policy Water Resources of the State of Cearà from the evolution of the implementation of budgetary resources from 1995 to 2012." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11266.

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The state of CearÃ, inserted in the semiarid Northeast, has been following the global trend of the development of water resources policy, but the challenge is to continue its effective implementation, considering the need to ensure water availability and improving the quality of water, besides the implementation of management instruments against a background of increasing demand and thus polluting sources. Starting from the premise that public sector intervention in water resources policy is essential and mandatory due to the need of managing conflicts and major investments, government plannin
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Edwards, Peter. "Trust : Power and Engagement, Participatory Water Planning on the Gold Coast, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365305.

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Community and participatory engagement processes have received heightened attention on the political agenda with an increasing number of scholars and practitioners viewing them as a key component in robust, democratic decision-making. These participatory practices are, however, far from perfect. In order to refine and strengthen these imperfect practices it is first necessary to understand in detail how they work. This thesis uses a case study of the Gold Coast Waterfuture Strategy, a participatory engagement process held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in 2004 and 2005 to focus on tw
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Assefa, Kibreab. "Groundwater recharge modelling: linkage to aquifers and implications for water resources management and policy." John Wiley & Sons, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22212.

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The main goal of this research is to develop and test a groundwater recharge estimation method that can address some of the key research priorities in groundwater. In this context use is made of various modelling tools including ArcGIS, field data (in situ observations of soil temperature and soil moisture), and soil physics as represented by a physically based vadose zone hydrologic model (HYDRUS-1D). The research is conducted in a pilot watershed in north Okanagan, Canada. The public version of HYDUS-1D and another version with detailed freezing and thawing module are first used to inves
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Barthle, Justin. "Analysis of Managerial Decision-Making within Florida’s Total Maximum Daily Load Program." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6462.

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Water quality has evolved legislatively from protection of navigation routes and quantity of sources to more emphasis on impairments on water quality for surface and groundwater sources. Nonpoint or diffuse sources of impairments represents a major challenge for management due to the complexity of its sources and difficulty in tracking. The most cited sections on public policy analysis focuses on the overall process agencies employ to understand the results the program yields. Often overlooked are finer details and mechanisms, such as decision-making and priority setting, which have a great im
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Xu, Bixia. "Water Planning and Management in Theme Park Tourism: A Comparison of Australian and Chinese Policy and Practice." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365805.

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Water security has emerged as a significant international concern in recent decades. Climate change, rapid urbanisation, and burgeoning global tourism are compounding water provision problems in many countries. Australia and China are two examples. The driest inhabited continent on Earth, Australia has recently experienced its worst drought in recorded history. The nation is also dealing with high urban population growth. Residents' water demands are heightened by large numbers of tourists. China is the world's largest fresh water consumer. Although China has many fresh water sources, rapid ec
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Parsons, William Wesley. "The politics of water in the Southwest: Policy patterns of water elites in Southern California and Arizona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185338.

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The political patterns of Western water policy are best explained as cooperation among the few, or "elites". The extent of elitism is demonstrated across four eras of Western water policy, the Foundation of Elites (1880s-1920s); the Emergence of Elites (1920s-1930s); the Golden Age of concrete (1930s-1960s); and the Era of Diminishing Returns (1970s- Present). The four phases test for elitism in a three step process. First, California and Arizona water politics serve as case studies to distinguish between elite and non-elite water interests. Second, the magnitude of elite control over Western
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鍾婉婷 and Yuen-ting Vanessa Chung. "A policy review of cross boundary water resources management between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B26771251.

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Pokorny, Alana O. "San Diego’s Options for Alternate Sources of Water: A comparative analysis of water recycling and desalination as alternative methods to importing water." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/514.

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This paper describes the processes, methods, backgrounds, and economic challenges, of Desalination and Water Recycling and provide current examples of both. To create a baseline with which to compare the two methods, I will also delve into the history of California water policy. This complicated past is the reason water importation into Southern California remains the main method of obtaining water. Yet, as the current drought continues and technology advances, the need for imported water will become obsolete as the methods for recycling and desalinating water become less expensive, more conve
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Hardy, Eric M. "Policy drought: water resource management, urban growth, and technological solutions in post-world war II Atlanta." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50109.

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By the dawn of the twenty-first century the City of Atlanta was facing a crisis of water quantity and water quality. It was involved in two-decades worth of litigation with the states of Alabama and Florida over access to surface waters that originate within Georgia, a legal dispute that threatened to severely reduce the city’ ability to provide water to its growing metropolitan population. In addition, city officials were in the beginning stages of a four-billion dollar, court-ordered program of improvements to its wastewater infrastructure that was intended to reduce the amount of pollution
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Papacharalampou, Chrysoula. "Integrated water resources and asset management at a catchment scale : a life-cycle improvement approach." Thesis, University of Bath, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.723320.

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In the water utility sector, traditional asset management focusses on the maintenance and provision of physical assets (infrastructure) that allow water companies to deliver their services, meet their customers’ expectations and achieve their economic objectives. Nevertheless, the serviceability of the sector heavily depends on natural elements (e.g. rain, land). The importance of Natural Capital (i.e. the natural systems and their deriving ecosystem services) has been at the core of policy recommendations which have shaped regulatory changes in the water sector of England and Wales. Water com
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Shapiro, Michael. "Ensuring Our Future or Sowing the Seeds of Our Own Destruction? Crop Insurance and Water Use in Texas." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/131.

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Agriculture is the largest consumer of water in the United States. Policies that affect agriculture therefore have the potential to have a large effect on the overall use of water. Crop insurance is one such policy, which was found to significantly increase water use in the state of Texas. Much, but not all of this effect can be explained by an increase in planting density, and results vary widely by crop and by region.
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Hirsch, Paul Devin. "Making space for environmental problem solving : a study of the role of "place" in boundary choices using Georgia's statewide planning process as a case /." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26587.

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Thesis (Ph.D)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.<br>Committee Chair: Bryan Norton; Committee Member: Christopher Weible; Committee Member: Gail Cowie; Committee Member: Michael Chang; Committee Member: Michael Hoffmann. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Júnior, Avelino Alves Barbosa. "National policy for water resources and the exemption of charge for water use in basin of the Paraíba do Sul River." Universidade de Taubaté, 2007. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=78.

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A presente dissertação teve o objetivo de analisar e investigar um meio para que os proprietários de terras possam receber um auxílio financeiro para cuidar do meio ambiente, principalmente dos recursos hídricos. A natureza nos oferece recursos ambientais que estão sendo explorados de maneira devastadora, sempre visando o lucro. Os recursos hídricos devem ser preservados, pois, a água é um líquido precioso para a vida dos seres vivos. Assim, o mundo preocupado com a escassez dos recursos hídricos, está impondo metas para a sobrevivência da presente e das futuras gerações. O Brasil, com base no
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Barthle, Justin. "Analysis of Managerial Decision-Making within Florida's Total Maximum Daily Load Program." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10240940.

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<p> Water quality has evolved legislatively from protection of navigation routes and quantity of sources to more emphasis on impairments on water quality for surface and groundwater sources. Nonpoint or diffuse sources of impairments represents a major challenge for management due to the complexity of its sources and difficulty in tracking.</p><p> The most cited sections on public policy analysis focuses on the overall process agencies employ to understand the results the program yields. Often overlooked are finer details and mechanisms, such as decision-making and priority setting, which ha
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Rayl, Johanna M. "Water Markets and Climate Change Adaptation: Assessing the Water Trading Experiences of Chile, Australia, and the U.S. with Respect to Climate Pressures on Water Resources." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/150.

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Water trading and water markets have been listed by leading climate change organizations as a possible tool for climate change adaptation. Experience with water trading exists in many places in the world, and three of the most well-known and widely-studied markets for water rights are found in the Western United States, Chile, and Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. While the body of literature on the performance of these markets is extensive, few papers relate the experiences of these three countries to adaptation as of yet. This thesis seeks to report on the outcomes of water markets in three
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De, Lange Willem Johannes. "The role of capacity-sharing in South African water policy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53157.

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A vast literature on the incompatibility of socio-economic development and environmental conservation (also referred to as sustainable development) has developed over the past few years. This study takes on the form of a critical, problemdriven discussion and evaluation of the applicability and viability of the concept of capacity-sharing to the current South African water management regime. Within the study, the complexities involved in the shift from a supply- to demandoriented management strategy are examined in depth. T
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McCall, Sarah. "Water systems, water policy, and Karst terrain: An analysis of the complex relationships between geology, economy, public perceptions, and policy in southern Trelawny, Jamaica." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5585/.

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Jamaica has an abundance of freshwater resources, however, a lack of infrastructure makes treated, piped water inaccessible in many areas. Through literature reviews and site visits, this thesis is an analysis of how the people and land, and money and policy, interact with one another in relation to Jamaica's freshwater resources and water infrastructure. Special attention is given to the island's type-example Cockpit karst geology; tourism, mining, and farming's relation to this karst; types of water delivery systems in rural southern Trelawny's Cockpit Country; southern Trelawny residents' p
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Ditt, Eduardo Humberto. "Integration of ecosystem services and policy to manage water and forest resources around the Atibainha Reservoir in Brazil." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497742.

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Londono, Mario. "A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Land Use and Water Quality in Southern Miami Dade County." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2174.

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This thesis research employs a multi-pronged analysis approach to contribute to the existing knowledge regarding land use and water quality in southern Miami Dade County. Nutrient concentrations for TP, NOx-N, and NH3-N were evaluated for water quality monitoring stations across seven canals for two time periods: 1990-2003 and 2009-2014. Overall, the sites did not surpass the mandated TP threshold but a number of sites exceeded the NOx-N and NH3-N criteria set by multiple government agencies. Statistical tests demonstrated that the sites had differing distributions, not sharing similar median
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Kgomotso, Phemo Karen. "The challenge of implementing integrated water resources management (IWRM) in the Lower Okavango River Basin, Ngamiland district, Botswana." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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Water resources management practice has undergone changes in management approaches and principles over time. It was previously characterised by what scholars refer to as the hydraulic mission where ‘extreme engineering’ was the order of the day (Allan, 2003). As Radif (1999) argues, water resources managers and policy makers were initially driven to manage and supply water to people for its direct use<br>these included drinking, growing food, and providing power for domestic and industrial use. This modus operandi continued until the end of the 1970s. Over two decades later, this focus is st
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Manderino, Laurie Ann. "Water and sanitation institutions and governance| Impact on service provision in urban areas of low- and middle-income countries." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3739597.

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<p>Rapid global urbanization over the last few decades has intensified the challenge of providing adequate water and sanitation services to urban residents. Meeting this challenge has been the focus of domestic and international development efforts, including Millennium Development Goal 7.C. This research studies three institutional and governance attributes theorized to improve government service outcomes, testing hypotheses that the attributes are associated with greater country progress on providing urban water and sanitation access. The attributes are: a) decentralized services; b) sect
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Ibrahim, Auwal. "Law and policy for environmental protection and sustainable development in Nigeria with special reference to water resources development projects." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1455/.

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There could hardly be any doubt that the pursuit of development objectives, especially in a developing country such as Nigeria, is a legitimate and in fact necessary path for economic, social and political advancement. Within the decades of the 1970s and 1980s however, increased concern about the adverse environmental and socio-economic effects of certain specific development activities have necessitated a search for appropriate development paradigms that would enable the attainment of development objectives with as little environmental and socio-economic adversity as possible. A concept that
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Bartlett, Joseph Hollis. "Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Stormwater and Surface Waters in Chittenden County, Vermont, USA." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/426.

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Transportation infrastructure is a major source of stormwater runoff that can alter hydrology and contribute significant loading of nutrients, sediment, and other pollutants to surface waters. These increased loads can contribute to impairment of streams in developed areas and ultimately to Lake Champlain. In this study we selected six watersheds that represent a range of road types (gravel and paved) and road densities (rural, suburban, and urban) present in Chittenden County, one of the most developed areas in Vermont. The location and density of road networks were characterized and quantifi
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Brown, Gwynne D. "Intentional Introductions of Non-Indigenous Species: A Case Study of Policy and Management Affecting Crassostrea gigas." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617643.

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Klaiber, Laura B. "Edge-Of-Field Water And Phosphorus Losses In Surface And Subsurface Agricultural Runoff." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/565.

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Quantifying effectiveness of soil management practices on surface and subsurface water quality at the field scale is becoming increasingly important in the Lake Champlain Basin and other agricultural watersheds. During 2012 and 2013, field plots (22.9 x 45.7 m) were established at the Lake Alice Wildlife Area in Chazy, NY to begin a long-term water quality monitoring study. Plots were established in a cool season grass field (1 ha) leased and managed by the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, NY. The soil type transitions from an excessively drained outwash soil on the u
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anderson, Britt-Anne. "Bioremediation of Tributyltin Contaminated Sediment using Spartina alterniflora in a Created Tidal Wetland." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617751.

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Tavanlar, Katrina D. (Katrina Domaoal) 1973. "Participation in policy and practice : conventional and deliberative roles for the public in water resources management and environmental decision-making." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70322.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75).<br>Public participation plays an important role in environmental decision making and policy formulation. Federal and state agencies charged with the responsibilities of determining laws to manage environmental problems are mandated to include participation in their regulatory rulemaking. In most cases, public participation takes place in conventional forums such as public hearings, meetings, and workshops. These forums have limited capacity f
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Brady, Grant. "PC-SWMM modeling of policy changes on suburban watersheds in Johnson County, Kansas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20570.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering<br>Stacy Hutchinson<br>Urban areas have traditionally been managed as separate entities from the natural environment. Recently, urban planners have been interested in reconnecting these areas back to the biosphere to capitalize on ecosystem services restoring damaged hydrologic processes. This study focuses on suburban Johnson County, KS (part of the Greater Kansas City area), which has 62 USEPA 303(d) listed “impaired” or “potentially impaired” waterbodies. Previous studies show that watersheds crisscrossed by multipl
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Scott, Tara L. "Accounting for undesirable outputs in productivity measurements: Application to the California-Oregon drift gillnet fishery." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539616845.

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Many production activities typically produce undesirable outputs, e.g., the production of the pollutant sulfur dioxide in the generation of electricity. Traditional economic metrics may overstate the efficiency and productivity of these production activities by failing to account for the undesirable outputs. These omissions can lead to conclusions that are biased against resource conservation and protection. Many fisheries capture their target species concomitantly with undesirable outputs such as bycatch of juvenile fish, marine mammals, sea birds, and sea turtles. One such fishery is the Cal
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Lilyea, Bruce Victor. "Stakeholder Perceptions of Sustainable Value and Water Conservation: A Case Study of Social, Environmental, and Economic Concerns in the Rookery Bay Estuary." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/27.

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Stakeholders’ perceptions of social, environmental, and economic concerns in the Rookery Bay Estuary were examined through this research. The purpose of this study was to discover the shared value and common resolution responses for the people of the Rookery Bay area that can extend to other local environmental management scenarios. Using Stakeholder Theory, Rational Choice Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Systems Theory as theoretical foundation, the following research questions were considered: RQ1) What are the points of shared value of community stakeholders facing environmental manage
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Archer, Jana E. "Spatiotemporal Analyses of Recycled Water Production." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3223.

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Increased demands on water supplies caused by population expansion, saltwater intrusion, and drought have led to water shortages which may be addressed by use of recycled water as recycled water products. Study I investigated recycled water production in Florida and California during 2009 to detect gaps in distribution and identify areas for expansion. Gaps were detected along the panhandle and Miami, Florida, as well as the northern and southwestern regions in California. Study II examined gaps in distribution, identified temporal change, and located areas for expansion for Florida in 2009 an
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Baker, Ted W. "Water Quality Impacts from Agricultural Land-Use in the Karst Groundwater Basin of Qingmuguan, Chongqing, China." TopSCHOLAR®, 2008. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/37.

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Karst regions are composed of soluble rock, often limestone, which leads to the formation of fissures, sinkholes and water flow conduits such as caves. Pollutants in karst waters tend to be quickly directed and concentrated into these subsurface conduits. As a result of this and other factors, water resources are especially sensitive to contamination and pollution in karst areas. Pollutant concentrations going into fluvial systems travelling through the subsurface in karst areas are often very similar to the concentrations arriving at outlets such as springs. Areas connected by karst conduit f
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Davidson, Michael Raphael. "Institutional structures for equitable and sustainable water resource management in the Middle East." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3063.

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Water management is a challenge in the Middle East today because of increasing population, decreasing water quality, political instability and security concerns. Israel and the Palestinian Authority share the three major freshwater sources in an inequitable and unsustainable manner. This study details the hydro-geological, political, cultural and legal challenges to equitable and sustainable water resource management in the region.
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Azevedo, Fabiana Zanqueta de. "Análise de procedimentos de gestão do comitê de bacia hidrográfica do Rio São José dos Dourados para implementação da política de recursos hídricos no Estado de São Paulo." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2009. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4302.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3605.pdf: 1905240 bytes, checksum: 95d2c2e8b6aeb7a521b07d162a4226fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-30<br>The principal aim of this research was to analyze the management of the Hydrographical Basin Committee (HBC) in order to implement the Water Resources Policy (HRP) in the State of São Paulo, establishing relations among the main problems, the indicated procedures to resolve them, and the management of the HBC-SJD (Hydrographical Basin Committee of the River São José dos Dourados). The research started with th
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Miller, Elizabeth. "Subjective Efficiencies: Water Use, Management and Governance in the North Platte Natural Resources District." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248409/.

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The North Platte Natural Resources District (NPNRD) is one of 23 quasi-governmental organizations in the state of Nebraska that are organized by river basin and are responsible for the management of groundwater. Conversely, the state's surface water is governed by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources under the system of prior appropriation. This study uses Foucauldian neoliberal governmentality and a contrasting theory of 'meandering' to explore the conflicting beliefs, perceptions and values that form the foundations of different notions of 'efficiency' as it pertains to water use and
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Sefela, Glenwin. "The law and policy governing inter-basin transfers of freshwater resources in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6619.

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Magister Legum - LLM<br>Water scarcity is a worldwide threat. Fresh water resources are vital to human existence and survival. The challenge faced relates to the way these water resources are being distributed and managed. As an answer to this challenge, humans responded with what is commonly known as water transfers. A water transfer refers to the importation of water where water supply is low. Water transfers are, however, not a new concept as it dates back to the ancient Mesopotamians. Today, due to the global population having drastically increased, water transfers, or inter-basin tr
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Strickler, Matthew J. "Assessing the Impacts of Land use Change on Hard Clam Aquaculture in Old Plantation Creek, Northampton County, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. http://www.vims.edu/library/Theses/Strickler07.pdf.

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