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Arizona and California Farmers, Targets for Colorado River Cuts, Draft Their Conservation Strategy

Circle of Blue

Knowing they are targets, farmers in southern Arizona and California who receive irrigation water from the Colorado River are discussing a plan that could go a long way toward meeting a federal conservation mandate in the drying basin. Besides the irrigation districts, urban suppliers in the basin are also putting forward conservation plans.

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Tax Incentives Find New Purpose for Conserving Water in American West

Circle of Blue

Conservation easements protect the region’s depleted groundwater. Pragmatic ingenuity is being applied here to overcome them, including a new easement program that uses federal and state tax benefits to conserve groundwater. Easements are the latest step in a developing strategy to meet Colorado’s water conservation directive.

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Explorers Club Names J. Carl Ganter a Fellow, Recognizing Contributions to Freshwater Research, Conservation and Journalism

Circle of Blue

Carl Ganter an Explorers Club Fellow in recognition of his contributions to understanding and conserving the world’s fresh water. . Carl Ganter a Fellow, Recognizing Contributions to Freshwater Research, Conservation and Journalism appeared first on Circle of Blue. ” The post Explorers Club Names J.

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S. Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology.

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California Enacts Major Water Law Reform Legislation–But More Changes Are Needed

Legal Planet

Beginning in early 2021, the California Planning & Conservation League Foundation convened a group of water law professors and other water experts to formulate specific recommendations for modernizing California water rights law. But that momentum did not stop there. Both AB 460 and AB 1337 were approved by the California State Assembly.

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Richard Leakey's Legacy in Science, Conservation and Politics

Scientific American

The famed paleoanthropologist explored humankind’s origins and worked to safeguard a future for humans and wildlife alike, in Kenya and beyond. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Digitalization and Predictive Policing in Conservation

Legal Planet

Stinson is a cultural anthropologist who studies digitalization, datafication, and automation within conservation, with a special focus on digital surveillance and smart technologies. SMART is a digital platform for data collection, storage, and analysis within conservation.