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Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty: A Proceedings (1991)
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Front Matter (R1-R14)
1. Overview (1-14)
2. Sharing Water Resources with Future Generations (15-27)
3. The Science Climate Change and Climate (28-30)
4. Primer on Climate Change (31-46)
5. Climate Change and Climate Variability: The Climate Record (47-70)
6. Climate Change and Climate Variability: The Paleo Record (71-100)
7. Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels and Climate Change . . . (101-147)
8. Hydrologic Implications of Climate Uncertainty in the Western United States (148-157)
9. The Implications of Climate Change for Streamflow and Water Supply . . . (158-176)
10. Climate Uncertainty: Implications for Operations of Water Control Systems (177-216)
11. Economic Consequences of Climate Variability on Water in the West (217-238)
12. Western Water Law, Global Climate Change, and Risk Allocation (239-254)
13. Water Resources Forecasting (255-274)
14. Some Aspects of Hydrologic Variability (275-280)
15. Management Responses to Climate Variability (281-283)
16. Improvements in Agricultural Water Management (284-289)
17. Creative Water Management (290-295)
18. Weather Modification as a Response to Variations in Weather and Climate (296-302)
19. Managing Water Supply Variability: The Salt River Project (303-323)
20. Public Involvement in Water Resources Decisionmaking in a Climate . . . (324-325)
21. The First Rough Draft of History: How the Press Reports on Global Warming (326-329)
22. Water Use Efficiency as a Response to Climate Uncertainty (330-332)
23. Climate Change, The Media, and Public Responses (333-336)
A Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members (337-338)
B Biographical Sketches of Principal Contributors (339-344)