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Cumulative Effects of Small Reservoirs on Streamflow in Northern Coastal California Catchments

Deitch, Matthew; Merenlender, Adina; Feirer, Shane - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 15, pp. 5101-5118

With small reservoirs increasingly employed to meet human water needs, tools that consider cumulative effects of multiple small reservoirs through space and time are essential for understanding impacts of these spatially distributed stresses on catchment hydrology and related ecological...

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An Informetric Profile of Water Resources Management Literatures

Ren, Jun-Lin; Lyu, Peng-Hui; Wu, Xin-Mu; Ma, Fei-Cheng; … - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 13, pp. 4679-4696

water resource management. The methods of informetric analysis were used to survey water resource management related …. The number of papers related to water resource management in 2012 was approximately 8 times that of the year 2000 and … hundreds of times more than early 1990s. Water resource management related papers were distributed unevenly by countries. The …

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Decentralisation and the Politics of Water Allocation in West Bengal

Chakrabarti, Bhaskar - In: Journal of South Asian Development 8 (2013) 1, pp. 01-26

In order to overcome inefficient allocation of natural resources, there is a trend to make government more accountable to local people through decentralisation. Today, when farmers are moving away from the agricultural sector in West Bengal, India, for which water scarcity is one of the main...

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The regulation of a spatially heterogeneous externality: Tradable groundwater permits to protect streams

Kuwayama, Yusuke; Brozović, Nicholas - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2013) 2, pp. 364-382

Groundwater pumping can reduce the flow of surface water in nearby streams. In the United States, recent awareness of this externality has led to intra- and inter-state conflict and rapidly-changing water management policies and institutions. Although the marginal damage of groundwater use on...

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