California water adequacy laws: what potential for climate change adaptation?

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California water adequacy laws: what potential for climate change adaptation? Pepper, Nancy

Abstract

This paper assesses the potential effectiveness of California’s water adequacy laws, specifically Senate Bill 610 and Senate Bill 221, as climate change adaptation tools. To undertake the analysis, I reviewed legislation, case law, and a selected municipal plan. This provided an analytical understanding of the law’s functioning. The definition of adaptation and the five evaluation factors of 1) anticipatory vs. reactive adaptation, 2) appropriateness of time horizon, 3) data gathering and use, 4) scope of application and 5) support of flexibility were identified through a review of climate change adaptation literature. I applied the factors in an assessment of California’s Water Adequacy Laws and discuss the findings.

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Title	California water adequacy laws: what potential for climate change adaptation?
Creator	Pepper, Nancy
Date Issued	2010-08
Description	This paper assesses the potential effectiveness of California’s water adequacy laws, specifically Senate Bill 610 and Senate Bill 221, as climate change adaptation tools. To undertake the analysis, I reviewed legislation, case law, and a selected municipal plan. This provided an analytical understanding of the law’s functioning. The definition of adaptation and the five evaluation factors of 1) anticipatory vs. reactive adaptation, 2) appropriateness of time horizon, 3) data gathering and use, 4) scope of application and 5) support of flexibility were identified through a review of climate change adaptation literature. I applied the factors in an assessment of California’s Water Adequacy Laws and discuss the findings.
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. SCARP Graduating Projects
Date Available	2016-01-29
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0102506
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32597
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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