Preventing the repetition: Or, what Los Angeles' experience in water management can teach Atlanta about urban water disputes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Feldman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTA; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; GEORGIA; LOS ANGELES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SURROUNDING REGIONS; URBAN WATERS; WATER CONFLICT; WATER HISTORY; WATER POLICIES;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; STUDENT; TEACHING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

ATLANTA; CALIFORNIA; GEORGIA; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649880586     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007605     Document Type: Article

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