Cities across the world have had to diversify and expand their water supply systems in
response to demand growth, groundwater depletion and pollution, and instability and …

Climate change is a management and governance challenge requiring diverse potential
responses. This article highlights the critical role public managers play in navigating the …

Policies that increase the reliance of a water-supply organization (WSO) on water
conservation have economic and environmental benefits, but some cities and WSOs have …

Rapidly evolving environmental problems in urban areas require new policy directions.
However, the policy change process can be hard to comprehend, making it difficult to foster …

Local governments play a large, if understudied, role in the implementation of environmental
policy in the United States. The major environmental statutes outline explicit responsibilities …

Where policy goals can be achieved through regulation of private firms, private provision of
public services allows governments to separate public policies from their political costs by …

As populations increase and droughts intensify, water providers are using tools such as
persuasive messaging to decrease residential water use. However, district‐led messaging …

A bstract Why do some arid locations persist in having weak water conservation policies?
And why do some wetter locales implement comparatively strong conservation …

Resilience and environmental governance scholars have long studied and debated the role
of the state in driving or coordinating responses to the varied dimensions of adaptive …

We analyze the relationship between local municipal characteristics and their choice of
Water Rate Structure (WRS), applying a Multinomial Logit Model (MLM) to the most recently …