Climate, Changing Snowpack, and the Future of Winter Recreation

In America's arid Southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protection. This book explores the challenges that climate change and variability pose for water and energy managers and users, communities, and policymakers in the arid Southwest. It provides valuable tools for those interested in resource management and climate change, as well as readers seeking to understand how economic methods can be used to analyze contemporary social problems and craft appropriate responses. The book considers both adaptation to long-term climate change and more immediate issues of water and electricity management in the face of interannual climate variability and drought-providing useful lessons for the region's most pressing resource management problems.