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Parcelling Out The Watershed: The Recurring Consequences Of Organising Columbia River Management Within A Basin-Based Territory, Eve Vogel
Eve Vogel
This article examines a 75-year history of North America’s Columbia river to answer the question: what difference does a river basin territory actually make? Advocates reason that river basins and watersheds are natural and holistic water management spaces, and can avoid the fragmentations and conflicts endemic to water management within traditional political territories. However, on the Columbia, this reasoning has not played out in practice. Instead, basin management has been shaped by challenges from and negotiations with more traditional jurisdictional spaces and political districts. The recurring result has been 'parcelling out the watershed': coordinating river management to produce a few …
New Deal Versus Yankee Independence: The Failure Of Comprehensive Development On The Connecticut River, And Its Long-Term Consequences, Eve Vogel, Alexandra Lacey
New Deal Versus Yankee Independence: The Failure Of Comprehensive Development On The Connecticut River, And Its Long-Term Consequences, Eve Vogel, Alexandra Lacey
Eve Vogel
In the 1930s, comprehensive development of the Connecticut River basin – coordinated dam-building and operations from tributaries to tidewater – was advanced by multiple people and agencies. However, they fought for twenty years over the specifics. President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal supporters and heirs envisioned a federal valley authority that could provide regional economic development, resource conservation, pollution abatement, and, most important, cheap, widely available public electric power. The New England business establishment touted Yankee independence, but most of all, wanted hydropower allotted to states and private power companies. Upriver rural and farming advocates, led by Vermont’s George …
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy, Eve Vogel
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy, Eve Vogel
Eve Vogel
The article reviews the book "Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy," by Karl Brooks.
Regionalization And Democratization Through International Law: Intertwined Jurisdictions, Scales And Politics In The Columbia River Treaty, Eve Vogel
Eve Vogel
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