Environmental management in the Colorado River Basin

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1974

OSTI ID:6037776

Crawford, A B; Peterson, D F ^[1]

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1. eds.

THe needs, conditions, and prospects for achieving a coordinated and basin-wide program of environmental management in the Colorado River Basin were explored. Analyses are presented. Political and institutional perspectives and the prospects of using environmental indices and the concept of carrying capacity in comprehensive planning are discussed. Since aridity and the limited assimilative capacity of the basin's environmental media place rather severe constraints on the kinds and levels of development which the basin's resources are capable of supporting and sustaining, the concept of carrying capacity was selected as an organizing theme of the conference. Following the background papers referred to above, workshops were held on each of the following areas of development occurring in the basin: recreation, agriculture, energy development, transportation, and urbanization. Following these individual workshops, a synthesis, Carrying Capacity in the Colorado River Basin and the Allocation of Scarce Resources among Competing Areas of Development, concluded the series. Three other papers included in this volume treat the international implications of the problem of salinity; the future of regional planning in the United States, and a glimpse of future directions in environmental legislation. Three of the twenty papers were abstracted and indexed individually. (JGB)

• OSTI ID: 6037776
• Report Number(s): CONF-7310132-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010900 -- Coal
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ABSTRACTS
AGRICULTURE
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DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
LAND USE
LEADING ABSTRACT
MEETINGS
PLANNING
RECREATIONAL AREAS
URBAN AREAS