Marketing Western Water : Can a Process Based Geographic Information System Improve Reallocation Decisions?
Reallocating water is a politically sensitive issue in the western United States. Changes from agricultural uses to urban or environmental uses are occurring, but the process tends to polarize competing water users, thus creating barriers to reallocation. Other barriers are inherent in the appropriation doctrine, and some barriers exist because of poor data or inadequate science. These barriers could be more easily overcome and the process made less political if the impacts of change were better known. Water users frequently resist change because of the uncertainty change brings. The biophysical and behavioral models currently used to predict the impacts of change do not account for spatial complexity or information uncertainty in ways that overcome legal and other barriers to reallocation. An integrated approach that couples a spatial and temporal framework to biophysical, institutional, and behavioral science can reduce uncertainty. Process based geographic information systems can fill that role by allowing impacts to be assessed more accurately. A better understanding of impacts will potentially facilitate reallocation decisions in a water market setting
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2002
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Authors: | Matthews, Olen Paul ; Scuderi, Louis ; Brookshire, David S. ; Gregory, Kirk ; Snell, Seth ; Krause, Kate ; Chermak, Janie M. ; Cullen, Bradley ; Campana, Michael |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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