Expertise, Elites, and Resource Management Reform: Resisting Agricultural Water Conservation in California's Imperial Valley

An explanation of why the management of natural resources sometimes benefits an elite few, how the exercise of expertise contributes to this, and how traditional and inefficient resource use can continue. Water scarcity in Southern California forces the nation's largest irrigation district to c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tom Waller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Arizona Libraries 1994-12-01
Series:Journal of Political Ecology
Online Access:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/21155