Searching Out the Headwaters : Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy.

Intro -- About Island Press -- About the Natural Resources Law Center -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One - The West's Gordian Knot -- Chapter Two - Water in a Changing West -- WATER AS A SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE -- WATER AS A SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL AND COMMUNITY IDENTITY -- WATER AS A MEANS OF NAVIGATION -- WATER AS AN INSTRUMENT OF LARGE-SCALE IRRIGATION -- WATER AS AN ENGINE FOR INDUSTRY -- WATER AS FUEL FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT -- WATER AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE NATURAL AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter Three - Voices -- MARY AUSTIN -- WILLIAM DEBUYS AND ALEX HARRIS -- STANLEY CRAWFORD -- FRANK WATERS -- THEODORE M. SCHAD -- WOODY GUTHRIE -- WILLIAM KITTREDGE -- TIM PALMER -- EDWARD ABBEY -- WALLACE STEGNER -- ALDO LEOPOLD -- WALLACE STEGNER -- RICK BASS -- BRUCE BROWN -- JEFF RENNICKE -- Chapter Four - The West Today -- THE NEW WESTERNER -- WATER IN TODAY'S WEST -- A NEW WESTERN COMMUNITY? -- Chapter Five - River Basin Stories -- THE COLUMBIA: HYDRORIVER -- THE RIO GRANDE: "WHERE THUNDER IS SACRED AND THE RAIN IS A GOD" -- THE SACRAMENTO: RIVER OF SEASONS -- THE COLORADO: A RIVER DIVIDED -- THE MISSOURI: RIVER OF SACRIFICE -- Chapter Six - Losing Sight of the Headwaters -- THE POLICY OF FREE WATER -- THE POLICY OF CAPTURE -- THE POLICY OF WATER AS PROPERTY -- THE LEGACY OF WESTERN WATER LAW -- Chapter Seven - The Journey to Rediscovery -- REDISCOVERING PUBLIC INTERESTS IN WATER -- RECONSIDERING WATER PROVIDED BY FEDERAL WATER PROJECTS -- ACCOMMODATING INDIAN RESERVED RIGHTS -- RETHINKING THE GOVERNANCE OF WESTERN WATER -- Chapter Eight - Change and Rediscovery in Western Water -- THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSERVATION: WATER SHOULD BE USED WITH CARE -- THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUITY: THE WHOLE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE TREATED FAIRLY -- THE PRINCIPLE OF ECOLOGY: NATURE SHOULD BE RESPECTED.

A BALANCED APPROACH TO WATER USE: REALIZING THE WATER ETHIC -- Epilogue - History Need Not Repeat Itself -- Appendix - The Language of Water -- References -- Western Water Policy Working Group -- Western Water Policy Workshop Participants -- Discussion Papers Prepared for the Western Water Policy Project -- About the Authors -- Index.

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