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Description for Golden Rules
Hardback. Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. This book draws on historical sources to trace the emergence of the current framework for resolving water-rights issues to California in the 1850s, during the Gold Rush. Series: Markets and Governments in Economic History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; LNCR; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited. No longer can we rely on technological solutions to meet growing demand. What we need is better management of the available water supply to ensure it goes further toward meeting basic human needs. But better management requires that we both understand the history underlying our current water regulation regime and think seriously about what changes to ... Read more
Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited. No longer can we rely on technological solutions to meet growing demand. What we need is better management of the available water supply to ensure it goes further toward meeting basic human needs. But better management requires that we both understand the history underlying our current water regulation regime and think seriously about what changes to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Markets and Governments in Economic History
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226258676
SKU
V9780226258676
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Ref
99-15
About Mark Kanazawa
Mark Kanazawa is professor of economics at Carleton College.
Reviews for Golden Rules
"There has not been much new in the property rights literature for some time, and Kanazawa's book, based on analysis of newspapers, nineteenth-century court cases, and early mining camp rules and company records, is a wonderful addition. It will have broad appeal among legal scholars, historians and students of the American West, political scientists studying local common pool resource management, ... Read more