Water Quality and Management
Pyrethroid pesticides found at toxic levels in California urban streams
Submitted by cmjones on April 5, 2007 - 10:33am.Picture:
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UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Oct 25 2005Summary:
Now that organophosphate pesticides have been phased out for homeowner use in California, pyrethroid pesticide use is increasing in urban areas. A new study shows that these pesticides are already showing up in urban streams at levels toxic to organisms that live in the stream-bottom sediment. The likely cause is overuse of these pesticides on lawns and around buildings.Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/10/25_py.shtmlKeck funds project to track life cycle of water
Submitted by cmjones on April 4, 2007 - 1:37pm.Picture:
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UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Feb 23 2006Summary:
Weather satellites do a great job of tracking storms, but what happens to the water after it falls? An ambitious new project funded by the Keck Foundation aims to track the invisible and hidden water in the plants, soil and streams of two UC reserves.Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/02/23_water.shtmlConference to explore new ideas for Delta
Submitted by cmjones on April 4, 2007 - 1:35pm.Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Mar 6 2006Summary:
The rapid urbanization of flood-prone lands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta -- the water supply for nearly 23 million Californians and habitat for more than 30 fish species -- will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the University of California, Berkeley.Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/03/06_delta.shtmlBay Area Water History, One Month at a Time
Submitted by cmjones on April 3, 2007 - 10:26am.Picture:
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UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Dec 7 2006Summary:
"Mountains to Mouths," a 2007 wall calendar produced jointly by the campus's Water Resources Center Archives and Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library, illustrates the historical development of the intricate network of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and pumping stations that delivers high-quality water to millions of thirsty people in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2006/12/07_water.shtmlBlum Center Launches Global Field Initiatives
Submitted by cmjones on April 3, 2007 - 10:22am.Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Nov 14 2006Summary:
UC Berkeley's Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies on Tuesday announced the selection of its first field projects — the East Africa Healthcare Initiative and the Initiative on Safe Water and Sanitation. Both projects address poor health status, which is both a leading cause and a debilitating impact of global poverty. Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/14_blum.shtmlKondolf, Matt
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 2:23pm.Name:
Matt Kondolf
Research Interests:
Matt Kondolf's research and teaching focuses on rivers, their transformations by humans, their resilience and their active restoration
Department Name:
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Associate Professor
Hanemann, Michael
Submitted by cmjones on March 16, 2007 - 1:36pm.Name:
Michael Hanemann
Research Interests:
Dr. Hanemann’s research interests include non-market valuation, environmental economics and policy, water pricing and management, demand modeling for market research and policy design, the economics of irreversibility and adaptive management, and welfare economics.
Achievements:
Michael's research in economics has focused largely on aspects of modeling individual choice behavior, with applications to demand forecasting, inducing conservation, environmental regulation and economic valuation. He is a leading authority on the methodology of non-market valuation using techniques of both revealed and stated preference. A team of two dozen prominent experts led by professors from the California Climate Change Center released a new report in early 2006 on the economic implications of meeting global warming emissions reduction targets established by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005. The governor's goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 2000 levels by the year 2010, and to 1990 levels by 2020. "Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California," the first report in a series of economic and technology assessments, finds that just eight policy strategies can take California halfway to the governor's 2020 targets, while increasing the Gross State Product by approximately $60 billion and creating more than 20,000 new jobs.
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Department Name:
Goldman School of Public Policy, Professor
Water Resources Law
Submitted by cmjones on March 14, 2007 - 1:28pm.Department:
Boalt
Course Number:
272.1
Course Title:
Water Resources Law
Instructor:
Rossmann
Description:
The course emphasizes western
water law with special attention to California. We deal at length with public
rights in water, the public trust, area of origin claims, federal and Indian
reserved rights, interstate controversies, environmental assessment, and the
limitations of the takings clause on reallocations of water use. Water
pollution and water quality are addressed only peripherally. The course
thesis asserts that water is a distinctive species of property, a community
resource that can never be fully privatized and that must be used in the
public interest. We explore this remarkable idea.
Units:
3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
Environmental Law and Policy
Submitted by cmjones on March 14, 2007 - 1:23pm.Department:
Boalt
Course Number:
271
Course Title:
Environmental Law and Policy
Instructor:
Doremus, Farber
Description:
This introductory course is
designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law.
By focusing on constitutional issues and a limited number of federal
statutes--principally the the Administrative Procedure Act, the Clean Air
Act; the Clean Water Act; CERCLA (the Superfund law),; the National
Environmental Policy Act; and the Endangered Species Act--the course exposes
students to the principal approaches to environmental law (litigation,
command and control regulation, market incentives, and providing
information), as well as to the challenges of setting environmental policy
goals and choosing policy targets. The course is designed both for students
who intend to pursue environmental studies further and for those who simply
want to gain a basic understanding of this key area of public policy.
Units:
3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
Water and Development
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 12:56pm.Department:
ENE, RES
Course Number:
275
Course Title:
Water and Development
Instructor:
Ray
Description:
This class is an
interdisciplinary graduate seminar for students of water policy in developing
countries. It is not a seminar on theories and practices of development
through the "lens" of water. Rather, it is a seminar motivated by
the fact that over 1 billion people in developing countries have no access to
safe drinking water, 3 billion don't have sanitation facilities and many
millions of small farmers do not have reliable water supplies to ensure a
healthy crop. Readings and discussions will cover: the problems of water
access and use in developing countries; the potential for technological,
social, and economic solutions to these problems; the role of institutions in
access to water and sanitation; and the pitfalls of and assumptions behind
some of today's popular "solutions."
Units:
3
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
