The San Francisco Bay-Delta: A failure of decision-making capacity

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 710-725

  Hanemann, Michael ^a   Dyckman, Caitlin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental regulation; Governance; Water law; Water policy; Zero sum game

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

EID: 70349425269     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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