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Summary:
Introduces a Reconciliation approach to the apparent conflict of environmental and human uses of water and adjacent lands. Current management has largely failed to preserve ecosystem integrity, and a return to pre-development conditions is impossible. Therefore we need forceful efforts to essentially rebuild large parts of the water management system.
Primary Reading:
- Chapter 5, pages 199-252
Primary Video:
Additional Readings & Videos by Topic:
Declining Fisheries
- Peter Moyle: The Future of Freshwater Fish in California (Video, 20 min, 2014)
Reservation, Restoration, Reconciliation
- Money, Water, and Fish: Prospects for Reconciliation (Reading, 2014)
- Reconciling Ecosystem and Economy (Reading, 2014)
- How to Mend the Conservation Divide (Reading, 2014)
Reconciling the Delta
- Science and Ecosystem Reconciliation for the Delta (Video, 60 min, 2014)
- Blog: Science and Ecosystem Reconciliation in the Delta (Reading, 2014)
Reconciliation Tools
- Michael Rosenzweig: Tactics for Conserving Diversity: Global Vertebrate Patterns (Video, 20 min, 2014)
Environmental Laws & Uncertainties
- Brian Gray: A Regulator Perspective on Reconciliation Ecology (Video, 20 min, 2014)
- Planning for the Inevitable at Suisun Marsh (Reading, 2014)
- The ESA, Fish, and Me (Reading, 2013)
Keywords:
Chinook salmon, Delta smelt, Pupfish, Invasive species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act