| Main Title |
Owens Valley revisited : a reassessment of the West's first great water transfer / |
| Author |
Libecap, Gary D.
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| Publisher |
Stanford Economics and Finance, |
| Year Published |
2007 |
| OCLC Number |
80180228 |
| ISBN |
9780804753791; 0804753792; 9780804753807; 0804753806 |
| Subjects |
Water transfer--California--Owens Valley--History ;
Water transfer--Law and legislation--West (US) ;
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles ;
Owens River Watershed (Calif)--Water rights--History ;
Water rights--West (US) ;
California--Owens River Watershed ;
United States, West
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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
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Checkout
Status |
| ERAM |
F868.O9L53 2007 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
12/27/2016 |
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| Collation |
viii, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
A reexamination of Owens Valley and Western water -- The Owens Valley syndrome -- The history of the Owens Valley-to-Los Angeles water and land exchange -- The bargaining costs of land and water rights exchanges in Owens Valley -- The gains of exchange and the origin of the notion of "theft" -- Water rights and water reallocation in Owens Valley, 1935-2006 -- Water rights and water reallocation in the Mono Basin, 1935-2006 -- The costs of judicial reallocation of water rights and the public trust doctrine -- Concluding thoughts about Owens Valley and Western water. |
