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Urban water diplomacy: A policy history of the metropolitan water supply in the twentieth century Southern California.

机译：城市水外交：二十世纪南加州大城市供水的政策历史。

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This dissertation examines the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) from its founding to the present, as a case study in the urban water resources policy-making. Although histories of local public policies tend to ignore the institutional context of federalism, in fact, the judicial, legislative, and administrative branches of local, state, and federal levels affect the decision-making process. This dissertation, therefore, explains policy processes in the broadest possible context.;In 1928 eleven municipalities formed the MWD--chartered by the state legislature--in order to collectively import Colorado River water. Today, the Metropolitan, with the imported water from the Colorado and Northern California rivers, serves a sprawling area of over 5,000 square miles including more than 120 municipal members, and an exploding population of almost 15 million people in six counties from Ventura to San Diego. How and why has the agency evolved into its current status? What was the MWD's original mission? How did it change over time and why? Who got involved, and with what motivation?;Bearing the above general questions in mind, this dissertation critically examines a persistent myth: the City of Los Angeles, as one of the many MWD members but with the largest economic and political resources, has controlled the Metropolitan (and hence the other members). The title of this dissertation connotes a series of policy negotiations and compromises throughout the historical development of the MWD. The historical reality seems to suggest a more pluralistic model of decision-making rather than the simplistic LA-dominance-model.;"Pluralistic," however, does not necessarily mean "democratic" when considering the nature of the water resources decision-making structure. The framers of this agency planned to insulate the MWD's policy-makers from politics and popular control. Why was this sort of decision-making structure built? How has the nature of this arrangement been evaluated and altered over time? And where is it going?;The planning, researching, and writing of this dissertation has paralleled the maturation of the field of water history. This dissertation hopes to add a new page to the growing historiography of water resources studies--particularly in the modern American West.
机译：本文考察了南加州大都市水区从成立到现在的历史，以城市水资源政策制定为例。尽管地方公共政策的历史趋向于忽略联邦制的制度背景，但实际上，地方，州和联邦各级的司法，立法和行政部门会影响决策过程。因此，本论文在尽可能广泛的背景下解释了政策程序。1928年，十一个市政当局组建了MWD（由州立法机关授权），以便共同进口科罗拉多河水。如今，从科罗拉多河和北加利福尼亚河进口的大都市供水面积超过5,000平方英里，包括120多个市政成员，从维特纳（Ventura）到圣地亚哥（San Diego）的六个县的人口激增近1500万。该机构如何以及为何演变为目前的状态？ MWD的最初任务是什么？它是如何随着时间变化的？为什么？谁参与其中，并有什么动机？；考虑到上述一般性问题，本论文严格地考察了一个长期存在的神话：作为众多MWD成员之一，但经济和政治资源最大的洛杉矶市已经控制了大都会（以及其他成员）。这篇论文的标题暗示了一系列的政策谈判，并在MWD的整个历史发展中做出了让步。历史现实似乎暗示了决策的多元化模型，而不是简单的LA主导模型。“多元”在考虑水资源决策结构的本质时并不一定意味着“民主” 。该机构的策划者计划将MWD的决策者与政治和民众控制隔离开来。为什么要建立这种决策结构？如何评估和改变这种安排的性质？它的发展方向是什么？；本论文的计划，研究和撰写与水历史领域的发展平行。本论文希望为水资源研究的史学增添新的一页，特别是在现代美国西部。

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    Oshio, Kazuto.;

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    University of California, Santa Barbara.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Santa Barbara.;
  • 学科 History United States.;Political Science Public Administration.;Urban and Regional Planning.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1992
  • 页码 407 p.
  • 总页数 407
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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