Colorado River Basin Governance, Decision Making, and Alternative Approaches

Juricich, Rich

doi:10.1061/9780784482957.013

Cited by 3 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Institutional research is increasingly framed within the broader socio-political context of water governance (e.g., Getches, 1997;Koebele, 2017;Berggren J. G., 2018;Singh et al, 2019;Juricich, 2020). Governance research in Arizona, for example, has focused on pressing issues of groundwater and transboundary water management (e.g., Wilder, 2020;Albrecht, 2021).…”

Section: Governance and Related Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional levels of water management in the Colorado River basin region: A macro-historical geographic review

Wescoat

2023

Front. Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Complex water-stressed basins like the Colorado River in North America have multiple institutional levels of water management. Each institutional level is characterized by rules, organizations, and spatial jurisdictions that developed over decades to centuries to shape a dynamic multi-level system. After introducing the concept of institutional levels, and its relationship to geographic scales, this paper employs systematic bibliographic search methods to review their development in the Colorado River basin region. Results begin with the community level of water management from prehistoric Indian water cultures to early Hispanic water communities, 19th century water communities, and 20th century water organizations. Conflict among water communities shaped the state level of constitutional authority over water rights administration during the 19th century. Competition among states led in the 20th century to the interstate level of apportionment that often paralleled federal and tribal level water development policies, eventually leading to the international level of treaty relations between the U.S. and Mexico. This macro-historical geographic progression from institutions that were relatively small in size and early in time to those at higher levels and more recent in time offers insights into the multi-level institutional logic of the “law of the river” in the Colorado River basin region.

show abstract

Section: Governance and Related Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional levels of water management in the Colorado River basin region: A macro-historical geographic review

Wescoat

2023

Front. Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…se resuelven mediante litigios 175,176 . Sin embargo, en las actuales condiciones de sequía severa y en el contexto de los marcos jurídicos existentes, los intereses en materia de agua en la cuenca del río Colorado, incluido México, están luchando por evitar los litigios mediante acuerdos negociados y la reducción voluntaria del uso (Recuadro 28.1) 177,178,179 . Algunos de estos esfuerzos incluyen ahora a las tribus y a otros usuarios del agua que tradicionalmente han sido excluidos de la participación en las negociaciones, aunque la representación sigue siendo desigual 180 .…”

Section: Conflicto Competencia Y Colaboraciónunclassified