Owens Valley revisited : a reassessment of the West's first great water transfer /
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| Author / Creator: | Libecap, Gary D. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, c2007. |
| Description: | viii, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6448446 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
