ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Laissez-Faire, Management System, Environmental Policy
8 Nov 2016
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Lecture 32: california waterscapes and water management - outline. About getting you up to speed about how water management system exists, what their nature is, how they exist. Less oriented towards social justice dimensions of these things. First few lectures: contemporary, historical environmental policy. Complicated, so need the history to understand these issues: laissez faire, local institutions, hydraulic society, conflict, reconciliation(?) (hopefully moving towards this) History of water resource management in california key foci (frame the issues today based on the following:: water rights law/policy, infrastructure. Built at a time of very different set of values than today, more about delivering gods, less about conserving resources. Important to understand, hydraulic society (mid-20th century: water wars: the california delta. Student presentations concerning water conservation and groundwater. California waterscapes - the system is very complex. Lots of agricultural demand in san joaquin valley.
