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Sustaining our water resources : Water Science and Technology Board tenth anniversary symposium, November 9, 1992 / Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water quality management--United States--Congresses.
- Water quality management.
- Water quality--United States--Congresses.
- Water quality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Proceedings, sustaining our water resources
- Proceedings, sustaining our water resources.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume, a collection of seven essays by individuals prominent in the water resources field, commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Water Science and Technology Board. The essays cover a variety of current issues in the field, including intergenerational fairness and water resources, the relationship between policy and science for American rivers, changing values and perceptions in the hydrologic sciences, challenges to water resources decision making, and changing concepts of systems management. An overview of institutions in the field is also given.
- Contents:
- SUSTAINING OUR WATER RESOURCES
- Copyright
- AUTHORS OF PAPERS
- SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
- SYMPOSIUM COORDINATORS
- Other Recent Reports of the Water Science and Technology Board
- Contents
- Introductory Remarks
- 1 Intergenerational Fairness and Water Resources
- PRINCIPLES OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY AND WSTB ACTIVITIES
- INTERGENERATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FORPOLICY
- REFERENCES
- 2 Landscapes, Commodities, and Ecosystems: The Relationship Between Policy and Science for American Rivers
- INTRODUCTION
- RIVERS AS LANDSCAPES
- RIVERS AS COMMODITIES
- RIVERS AS OBJECTS OF PRESERVATION
- SCIENCE FOR RIVER MANAGEMENT
- THE SCIENCE-POLICY CONNECTION FOR RIVERS
- AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLICY
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX 2A
- APPENDIX 2B RIVERS IN THE U.S. WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM
- 3 Hydrologic Science: Keeping Pace with Changing Values and Perceptions
- ABSTRACT
- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGY
- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH
- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGICAL EDUCATION
- HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES
- 4 Changing Patterns of Water Resource Decision Making
- 5 Changing Water Resources Institutions
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- THE CONSTRUCTION ERA: 1900-1969
- DEALING WITH LIMITS AND CHANGING VALUES
- INSTITUTIONS FOR BALANCING FUTURE WATER DEMANDS WITH SUPPLIES
- 6 Changing Concepts of System Management
- CHANGING ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: NATURE IN BALANCE
- CHANGING ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: INDIRECT EFFECTS
- MANAGING FOR CHANGE
- MANAGING FOR COMPLEXITY
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- 7 The Water Science and Technology Board: A Success Story of a Run Down the Rapids of Science Policy
- MULTIPLE PARADIGM SHIFT RAPIDS
- RAPID MILEPOST ONE: UNBALANCED NATURE.
- RAPID MILEPOST TWO: MANAGING RATHER THAN POURING CONCRETE
- RAPID MILEPOST THREE: THE NEW ETHIC OF SUSTAINABILITY
- A LOOK AT FUTURE CANYONS AND RAPIDS
- Appendixes
- Appendix A Symposium Program
- Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Authors
- Appendix C WSTB Publications.
- Notes:
- Cover title: Proceedings, sustaining our water resources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610195961
- 9781280195969
- 1280195967
- 9780309573054
- 030957305X
- 9780585085234
- 0585085234
- OCLC:
- 632538517
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