William Blomquist: 3 books
Common Waters, Diverging Streams
Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
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...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
The Practice of Constitutional Development
Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
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...