Research - Category V: Water Law, Institutions & Policy
Projects are listed by year of funding (projects renewed for a second year are listed under the first year of funding only).

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Funded 2008-2009
Creation and Dissemination of a California Water Transfer Database (pdf)
Gary D. Libecap, UC Santa Barbara

Funded 2007-2008
Assessing the Effectiveness of California's Underground Storage Tank Annual Inspection Rate Requirements (pdf)
W. Bowman Cutter, Department of Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside

Securing Access to Water: Institutional Strategies for Coping with Drought and Water Scarcity (pdf)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Department of Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Integrated Regional Water Management Planning in California: Developing Institutions for Collective Action (pdf)
Mark Lubell, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

Enforcement-Driven Financing of Water Quality in California: The Case of Supplemental Environmental Projects (pdf)
Daniel Press, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
-->Annual Report 2007-2008 (pdf)

Funded 2006-2007
No new projects were funded in this category in 2006.

Funded 2005-2006
The Politics and Practice of Watershed Restoration: Insights from the Russian River Watershed, Northern California (pdf)
Jeff Romm, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
G. Mathias Kondolf, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley
Adina Merenlender, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Funded 2004-2005
An Economic Analysis of Groundwater Nitrate Pollution Control in Dairy-Intensive Watersheds (pdf)
Kenneth Baerenklau, Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)

Funded 2003-2004
No new projects were funded in this category in 2003.

Funded 2002-2003
No new projects were funded in this category in 2002.
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Funded 2001-2002
Economic Incentive and Policies to Improve Water Quality in a Binational Watershed (pdf)
Linda Fernandez, Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside

Voluntary Compliance Versus Mandatory Sanctions: A Natural Experiment in Water Quality Regulation (pdf)
Paul Sabatier, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

Funded 2000-2001
Negotiating Contentious Claims to Water: Shifting Institutional Dynamics for the Allocation of Water Between the Eel and Russian River Basins
J. Keith Gilless, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Multilateral Negotiations, Coalition Formation and California Water Policy
Rachael Goodhue, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Gordon Rausser, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Leo Simon, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
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Funded 1999-2000
Mechanisms for Addressing Third-Party Impacts from Voluntary Water Transfers (pdf)
Richard E. Howitt, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

An Integrated Modeling Framework for Analyzing Wetland Policies: Balancing Ecosystem Services and Economic Factors
Marca Weinberg, Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis
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WRC Research

  Category I: Hydrology,
   Climatology & Hydraulics


  Category II:
  Aquatic Ecosystems

  Category III:
  Water Quality

  Category IV: Water
   Dvpmt. & Mgmt. Alternatives


  Category V: Water Law,
   Institutions & Policy


  Special Projects