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Reregulating the flows of the Arkansas River: comparing forms of common pool resource organizations

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dc.contributor.authorLepper, Troy, author
dc.contributor.authorFreeman, David M., advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T20:12:23Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T20:12:23Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractWhat sociological attributes characterize the form of an enduring social organization that empowers individually rational self-interested actors to provide themselves with a common property resource and collective good? In order to address this research question, the analyst compared three common property resource and collective goods organizations for water management located in the Arkansas River basin of Colorado to an integrated ideal type model combining the work of David Freeman and Elinor Ostrom. It was the objective of this research to employ empirical observations while giving consideration to existing common property resource theories in an effort to formulate new theory. The three organizations being studied in this research were: (1) The Arkansas River Water Bank Pilot Program, (2) The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, (3) The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Management Association. A brief overview of the findings were as follows: (1) The Arkansas River Water Bank Pilot Program failed to show the characteristics that the analyst's integrated ideal type model would suggest were important to the creation of a long-enduring organization. The pilot program also failed to generate local interest. (2) The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District had some attributes of the integrated ideal type model, and is believed to have been partially successful for this reason. This organization will require further observation in the future to see just how successful it will be. (3) The Lower Arkansas Water Management Association had virtually all the characteristics of the integrated ideal type model. It was the only organization studied that should be considered a success story, success being defined by member support for the organization and the capacity of that organization to re-regulate flows on the Arkansas River. Implications for policy and theory are also addressed in this dissertation. The conceptual "ideal type" models do identify variables and relationships that can be associated with success and failure of social organizational experiences in the Arkansas Valley. The empirical observations of the three valley organizations do support aspects of the conceptual models found in the literature. Additionally, new theoretical propositions will be advanced.
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dc.identifierETDF_Lepper_2008_3321291.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237843
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArkansas River
dc.subjectcommon pool resource
dc.subjectorganizations
dc.subjectsociology of organizations
dc.subjectsociology of water resources
dc.subjectwater and the agriculture/urban interface
dc.subjectwater management and agriculture
dc.subjectwatershed science
dc.subjectpolitical science
dc.subjectenvironmental science
dc.subjectsociology
dc.subjectcomparative analysis
dc.subjectriver basins
dc.titleReregulating the flows of the Arkansas River: comparing forms of common pool resource organizations
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thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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