Adjustment preferences to groundwater depletion in the American high plains

Kromm, David E.; White, Stephen E.

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“…Studies have focused on public preferences for groundwater management in specific areas of the High Plains (Welch 1981;Kromm and White 1981,1983,1984Texas Department of Water Resources 1982;Shelley 1983), but none have examined regional differences of public perception at the interstate level. Fourteen counties representing the diversity of irrigation conditions in the six-state High Plains region were surveyed by us in 1984.…”

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Interstate Groundwater Management Preference Differences: The Ogallala Region

Kromm¹,

White²

1987

Journal of Geography

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Interstate Groundwater Management Preference Differences: The Ogallala Region

Kromm¹,

White²

1987

Journal of Geography

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“…The Texas system in the High Plains has been widely judged to be inadequate because of its reliance on voluntarism and localism to resolve the common access problem, to which it is especially subject (Johnson 1986;Templer 1983). Johnson (1986) Kromm andWhite 1986a, 1986b;Shelley 1983) have surveyed the groundwater management preferences of irrigators, farmers, and other residents in various portions of the Ogallala region. The New Mexico system, in contrast, has been perceived as one of the best in existence because of the greater security provided by prior appropriation and because of its full control over withdrawals within UWBs (Green 1974;Emel and Maddock 1986).…”

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“…Surveys demonstrate that farmers' concerns focus more closely on the period of transition and technological options than they do on the tragedy of the commons (Taylor, Downton, and Stewart 1985; Shelley 1983; Kromm andWhite 1984, 1986). Irrigators are aware of the problems of depletion both in general and for their operations, but they are often more concerned about the weather, the cost of energy, or prices of crops.…”

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Uneven Development and the Tragedy of the Commons: Competing Images for Nature-Society Analysis

Roberts¹,

Emel²

1992

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Abstract: The tragedy of the commons has become a core theoretical model for the analysis of natural resource problems, including those of depletion in the Southern Ogallala Aquifer underlying the Texas and New Mexico borderland. Converging lines of evidence indicate, however, that property externalities and individualistic noncooperation, the bases for the commons tragedy, do not exist in the Southern Ogallala. Instead, problems arise from change and instability, from the long transition from irrigated to dryland farming, and from the stresses on farm families and communities produced by declining profit per acre. These stresses result in political struggles over who will appropriate gains and who will suffer losses.This picture of change and conflict can be rendered more comprehensible by the political-economic concept of uneven development. Uneven development is rooted in central processes of capitalist development. It incorporates, but goes far beyond, the problems of depletion to include the valuation and devaluation of resource-based production complexes resulting from technological and other social changes. A mosaic resource landscape of simultaneous differentiation and leveling results. Uneven development provides the structural basis for place-based political coalitions that organize to enhance and protect local resource and production complexes, to appropriate gains and to displace losses. We argue that the problems of uneven development exist alongside, and frequently overshadow, the tragedy of the commons. Toward this end, the analysis brings a number of distinct literatures into contact, using the history of water development in the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico both to explore the ideas and to investigate a particular history. Key words: political economy of natural resources, tragedy of the commons, uneven development, Southern Ogallala Aquifer. That natural resources express social appraisals has become a cornerstone of the geographic perspective on environmental problems (Mitchell 1989). Geo-* The authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation for support of this research through grants SES 87-96253 and SES 86-07435. Special thanks to David Reynolds, Mike McNulty, Gail Hollander, David Lighthall, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions of this paper. As always, any and all omissions are attributable to the authors. graphic ideas derive from: (1) a longstand, ing engagement in human geography with the people-environment relationship (Glacken 1967), (2) the functional theory of resources developed by Zimmermann ...

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“…4 In general, Western Kansans seem not particularly receptive to water transfers. Kromm and White (1984) explored the adjustments preferred by residents of southwestern Kansas in coping with groundwater depletion. While respondents showed greatest preference for water use efficiency (over 70 percent), only 15 percent preferred the sale and transfer of water rights as an adjustment strategy.…”

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Water as rural heritage: reworking modernity through resource conflict in Edwards County, Kansas

Solís

2005

Journal of Rural Studies

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Adjustment preferences to groundwater depletion in the American high plains

Cited by 14 publications

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Interstate Groundwater Management Preference Differences: The Ogallala Region

Interstate Groundwater Management Preference Differences: The Ogallala Region

Uneven Development and the Tragedy of the Commons: Competing Images for Nature-Society Analysis

Water as rural heritage: reworking modernity through resource conflict in Edwards County, Kansas

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