Owens Valley revisited
Subtitle: a reassessment of the West's first great water transfer
By: Gary D. Libecap.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Economics and Finance
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780804753791; 9780804753807
Subjects: Water transfer -- California -- Owens Valley -- History; Water transfer -- Law and legislation -- West (U.S.); Water-supply -- California -- Los Angeles; Water rights -- West (U.S.); Owens River Watershed (Calif.) -- Water rights -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Owens Valley and Western water; title: The Owens Valley syndrome; title: The history of the Owens Valley-to-Los Angeles water and land exchange; title: The bargaining costs of land and water rights exchanges in Owens Valley; title: An assessment of the Owens Valley transfer: the distribution of the gains of exchange and the origin of the notion of "theft"; title: Water rights and water re-allocation : Los Angeles and the Owens Valley, 1935-2006; title: Water rights and water re-allocation : Los Angeles and the Mono Basin, 1935-2006; title: The costs of judicial re-allocation of water rights and the public trust doctrine; title: Concluding thoughts : Owens Valley and Western water.