California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta Reflections on Science, Policy, Institutions, and Management in the Anthropocene

The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is a critical node in Cali-fornia’s water system, a node through which many complex social and environ-mental feedbacks loop. Understanding likely futures of the Delta requires a historical, complex socioecological system perspective of its dynamics. Appropriate inst...

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Published inWater Policy and Planning pp. 223 - 238
Main Author Norgaard, Richard B.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published CRC Press 2016
Edition1
Subjects
Draft EIS
Unspoiled Natural Environments
Northern California Water
Review Services
Conservation Biologists
Delta Farmers
Adaptive Management
Laby Rinth
Del Ta
ICF
California’s State Water Project
Peripheral Canal
Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
Delta Plan
Sea Level Rise
Climate Change
Striped Bass
Le Vee Failure
ICF International
Levee Failure
Habitat Conservation Plan
NRC
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Summary:The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is a critical node in Cali-fornia’s water system, a node through which many complex social and environ-mental feedbacks loop. Understanding likely futures of the Delta requires a historical, complex socioecological system perspective of its dynamics. Appropriate institutional organization to promote effective science and management of the feedbacks has eluded California political and policy processes. Climate change and sea level rise increase the complexity, adding to the political and policy difficulties of finding effective institutional structures for science and management. The challenges in this Delta provide broad in-sights into the difficulties of water and ecological management in the Anthropocene.
ISBN:1482227975
1138490865
9781482227970
9781138490864
DOI:10.1201/b19534-12