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Water Law And Climate Change In The United States: A Review Of The Scholarship, Robin Kundis Craig
Water Law And Climate Change In The United States: A Review Of The Scholarship, Robin Kundis Craig
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Climate change’s effects on water resources have been some of the first realities of ecological change in the Anthropocene, forcing climate change adaptation efforts even as the international community seeks to mitigate climate change. Water law has thus become one vehicle of climate change adaptation. Research into the intersections between climate change and water law in the United States must contend with the facts that: (1) climate change affects different parts of this large country differently; and (2) United States water law is itself a complicated subject, with each state having its own laws for surface water and groundwater and …
Incomplete Integration: Water, Drought, And Electricity Planning In The West, Lincoln L. Davies, Victoria Luman
Incomplete Integration: Water, Drought, And Electricity Planning In The West, Lincoln L. Davies, Victoria Luman
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
The water-energy nexus is increasingly important as climate change alters social, policy, and economic tradeoffs and choices. This is particularly true in the arid western United States. This article provides an original empirical assessment of 33 integrated resource plans (IRPs) of electric utilities in that region. The analysis shows that only a minority of utilities address the risk of drought in their IRPs. Even fewer use their IRPs to develop concrete plans to address drought risk. Consequently, we suggest four different strategies for utilities to better integrate water and electricity planning. Importantly, our analysis reveals that legal and policy changes …