Evaluation of Major Dike-impounded Ground-water Reservoirs, Island of Oahu

Evaluation of Major Dike-impounded Ground-water Reservoirs, Island of Oahu
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Synopsis Evaluation of Major Dike-impounded Ground-water Reservoirs, Island of Oahu by : Kiyoshi J. Takasaki

Report on the high-head dike-impounded ground-water reservoirs that underlie interior mountainous areas where rainfall and subsequent recharge to ground water are the greatest on the Island of Oahu.

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Synopsis Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by : United States. Superintendent of Documents

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources

Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : 9781461556497
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Synopsis Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources by : Richard E. Just

This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources. It also considers what the discipline of economics has to acquire to become a more effective contributor to trans-boundary water resource management given political, legal, social, physical, scientific, and ecological realities. This book has its genesis in a symposium of the International Water and Resource Economics Consortium held at Annapolis, Maryland, April 13-16, 1997. The symposium was organized by the editors and the book contains papers presented at the symposium with subsequent revisions. The symposium brought together both economists and agency management personnel for the purpose of discussing not only how economic tools apply to trans-boundary water management, but also of identifying the obstacles to making such tools useful and informative to politicians and negotiators in public decision making roles. INTERNATIONAL VERSUS DOMESTIC TRANS-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS Trans-boundary water problems arise in many dimensions. The two most important types of problems emphasized in this book are international and domestic interstate or interregional problems. Cooperation on international problems is especially difficult because enforcement must be voluntary given the sovereignty of nations and the absence of an effective legal enforcement mechanism. Agreements must be sustainable and self-enforced if they are to have lasting benefits. Every negotiating country must be convinced it will receive benefits before it gives its consent to cooperation. In the absence of enforceable agreements, trans-boundary (i. e.