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<div><font face="Verdana">Are U.S. States Prepared to Manage Water in
a Changing Climate?</font></div>
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>https://eos.org/research-spotlights/u-s-states-prepared-manage-water<span
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An empirical study of water allocation and planning in five states
concludes that they lack a statewide strategy to manage the impacts of
climate change on water resources.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">SOURCE:<i> Water Resources Research</i>
doi:10.1002/2015WR018431</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">By Terri Cook 18 April 2016</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">2 closing paragraphs:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">"The data show that state water
managers are not always willing to enforce rules when taking action is
inconsistent with other state priorities, such as economic development
- or when it could expose the agency to political
attacks.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">" .... The authors
conclude that this lack of a statewide strategy largely means local
communities, large and small, must fend for themselves to understand
and respond to climate change-related risks to their local water
supplies; communities unable to fend for themselves may be at
increasing risk with respect to their water resources. (<i>Water
Resources Research</i>, doi:10.1002/2015WR018431,
2016)"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000">" Our
results showed that urban expansion around protected areas will
continue to be a major threat, and expand by 67% under
business-as-usual conditions."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000">Sebastián
Martinuzzi et al. Scenarios of future land use change around United
States' protected areas. Biological Conservation 184 (2015)
446-455</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1"
color="#000000">"The failure to give adequate consideration to
widespread cumulative time-lags</font></div>
<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1" color="#000000">often
masks the full extent of biodiversity changes that have already been
triggered."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1"
color="#000000"><i>Diversity and Distributions</i>, May
2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1"
color="#000000"><b>Historical legacies accumulate to shape future
biodiversity in an era of rapid global change</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1" color="#000000">Franz
Essl, Stefan Dullinger, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Philip E. Hulme, Petr
Pysek, John R. U. Wilson and David M. Richardson</font></div>
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>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.12312/abstract</font></div
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