Informality As a Planning Strategy: Collaborative Water Management in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program
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By Innes, Judith E; Connick, Sarah; Booher, David  In 1994 an unusual, if not unique, collaborative effort emerged to manage the highly contested and interconnected system of waters, levees, and habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 22--SARASOTA -- The Southwest Florida Water Management District wants to know how outdoor enthusiasts rank local lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers on their water levels.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 14--A proposed long-term strategy for managing and developing water resources in El Dorado County may not be perfect, but a spokesman for a water advocacy group says it's time the plan, six years in the making, was adopted.
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By Backus, Perry  BONNER - Not long after talk first began about restoring the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, people started stepping forward with a variety of ideas for the future of the site.
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This kind of sibling relationship is different. But how? A case study.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Last-minute measures to combat a drought in the Southeast belie a history of inaction when it comes to managing and conserving water.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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By Patty Fisher  PORTOLA VALLEY -- When you consider Bill and Jean Lane's lifetime of contributions to open-space preservation, their campaign to prevent two houses from being built in their Portola Valley neighborhood may seem like small potatoes.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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By Teddy Ng  Hong Kong entrepreneurs who own factories in the Pearl River Delta Region are grappling with a new challenge: Care about pollution or perish.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, government officials, farmers and environmentalists have been trying to find a way of prevent dangerous agricultural runoff from polluting the Delta and other state waterways.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 15--STOCKTON -- Levees channeling water through the web-like Delta are nothing like the riverbanks of old, where salmon swam in the shade of native cottonwoods and tangled brush crowded the shores.