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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william a blomquist”
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  • The Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management

    Chino Basin, California

    by William Blomquist ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book has three primary objectives. The first objective is to provide scholars with a more realistic view of adaptive management, without arguing against adaptive management. Adaptive management is necessary as well as desirable, but it is not easy, and demonstrating that through the Chino Basin experience is an important goal. The second objective is to provide practitioners with encouraging ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Common Waters, Diverging Streams

    Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

    by William Blomquist, Edella Schlager, Tanya Heikkila ...
    This book is a firsthand investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West. It presents three states that have adopted the conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water to make resources go further in serving people and the environment. Yet conjunctive management has followed a different history, been practiced differently, and produced different ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Governing Complexity

    Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity

    Edited by Andreas Thiel, William A. Blomquist, Dustin E. Garrick ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • The Practice of Constitutional Development

    Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

    by Filippo Sabetti, Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Audun Sandberg, Edella Schlager, James S. Wunsch0, William Blomquist1 ...
    This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas.Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

    Resource Governance

    by Gwen Arnold, Michael Cox, Roy Gardner, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Edella Schlager, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, William Blomquist, Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis0 ...
    In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Embracing Watershed Politics

    by Edella Schlager ...
    As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In Embracing Watershed Politics, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and in ... Read more

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    by Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Read more

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Total Control Zone

    by M. G. Scarsbrook ...
    Persephone was born inside a British labour camp. Slavery and death have been her only experiences of life. No friends. No feelings. No knowledge of the world outside. She is conditioned to work, obey, and survive.Yet when she is ordered to spy on a new prisoner, despite the great differences that exist between the two women, they soon forge a surprising friendship which changes everything.As the ... Read more

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  • Go East, Young Man

    Imagining the American West as the Orient

    by Richard Francaviglia ...
    Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West—in other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”—has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Networks of Power

    Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley

    by Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban ...
    Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. Networks of Power fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries.Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the Late Postclassic ... Read more

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