Anita Milman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Milman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Milman |
| SIGNATURE | MILMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5712-9388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Meeting a multifaceted mission
As they respond to mounting climatic and socioeconomic stressors, drinking water utilities must make decisions that span a diverse scope of strategic, planning, and operational issues. Their decision making is guided, in part, by how actors within the organization collectively interpret the situation they face. This sense-making process is profoundly influenced by the organization’s institutional logics, the overarching sets of principles, assump…
Complexities in Assessing Participation Commitments Under the Ramsar Convention
Despite a growing global consensus on the importance of public involvement in environmental governance, the extent to which countries follow through on their commitments to participation under multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) remains unclear. Through an examination of institutionalization of participation by India as part of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, this paper ident…
Institutional dependencies shape adaptation pathways for local service providers
Local governments around the world face mounting pressures that affect their provision of public services. To prepare for and respond to stressors and shocks, local service providers can choose from among a wide variety of actions. The adaptive actions they choose will influence which risks are addressed, when, and how. Selection of adaptive actions can also have long-term implications if the actions affect future options for adaptation. This res…
Not Whether to Coordinate, But How
A critical question in relation to inter-agency coordination is not only whether, but how, to coordinate. This question is particularly salient when agencies are subject to a top-down mandate. While inter-agency coordination can provide multiple benefits, agencies frequently have concerns about the potential risks of coordination. Differing coordination mechanisms may reduce or exacerbate those concerns. Depending on their coordination concerns, …
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes
Coordination mandates are used to steer collective action between local government agencies. When higher levels of government allow agencies to choose how to work together, the organizational forms and institutional arrangements they adopt likely influences their ability to achieve mandated coordinated outcomes. How group-level interactions influence achievement of coordinated outcomes is not well understood. California’s Sustainable Groundwater …
Motivating the formation of partnerships by small water systems
Small community water systems (CWS) often have difficulty maintaining high-quality service provision. Partnerships can help alleviate these problems, yet may not be attainable or pursued. This research examines the perspectives of U.S. state agencies with drinking water primacy regarding the benefits of water systems partnerships and the points of leverage that can induce water systems to partner. It assesses the benefits, drawbacks, and barriers…
Groundwater Recharge for Drought and Endangered Species Protection
San Antonio Water Systems (SAWS) developed its H2Oaks aquifer storage and recovery project in response to pumping restrictions set on its primary source of water supply, the Edwards Aquifer. The H2Oaks project pumps water from the Edwards Aquifer during wet years and transports it to the H2Oaks project site, where it is injected into the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer for storage. Stored water is withdrawn to meet municipal demand when restrictions on Ed…
Groundwater Recharge to Address Seawater Intrusion and Supply in an Urban Coastal Aquifer
The Orange County Water District (OCWD) was created in 1933 by the California Legislature and tasked with managing water resources in Orange County. As a part of its strategy to fight seawater intrusion and guarantee a reliable groundwater supply in the basin, OCWD built a recycled wastewater facility that treats wastewater received from the Orange County Sanitation District and recharges the water into the basin through injection wells and infil…
Groundwater Recharge for a Regional Water Bank
The Kern Water Bank is a semi-private groundwater bank operated by the Kern Water Bank Authority in Kern County, CA. The bank stores water from the State Water Project (SWP), Central Valley Project (CVP), and the Kern River. It is massive in scale, covering over 20,000 acres, with approximately 2.5 million acre feet diverted to the bank since 1995. The bank stores water on behalf of its member water agencies, which include both public and private…
Introduction to the Special Collection
Unsustainable management of groundwater basins has led to groundwater depletion, with impacts to human and environmental systems that will be exacerbated by the hydrologic effects of climate change. Increasing inflows to groundwater basins through managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is a mechanism that can help bring aquifers into sustainable balance, yet in spite of significant physical potential, MAR remains underused. Increasing emphasis on the tec…
Groundwater Recharge to Address Integrated Groundwater and Surface Waters
The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) Recharge Program aims to recharge an average of 250,000 AFY to mitigate the effects of groundwater pumping on surface water resources and, in doing so, to reduce conflicts between surface and groundwater users. The Idaho Water Resources Board (IWRB) partners with canal and irrigation companies to use IWRB’s surface water rights to conduct aquifer recharge through in- and off-canal seepage and direct injectio…
Groundwater Recharge for Water Security
The Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA) was established in 1996 to make full use of Arizona’s Colorado River entitlement. It aims to address groundwater depletion in central Arizona and to protect Colorado River water users against future shortages due to interannual variability in water availability. Each year, the AWBA pays the costs to deliver any of the state’s unused entitlement to Colorado River water into central and southern Arizona an…
Groundwater Recharge to Support Wildlife and Water Users
The Heyborne Ponds Recharge Project is a multibenefit project that simultaneously seeks to promote wildlife conservation, to address threatened and endangered species recovery, to support recreation, and to facilitate water availability for agriculture. The project delivers water from the South Platte River to recharge ponds to provide habitat for migrating birds while concurrently providing a mechanism for water to infiltrate into the alluvial a…
Focus on interactions between science-policy in groundwater systems
International river basin organizations, science, and hydrodiplomacy
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
Concurrent Governance Processes of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is a landmark policy that requires achievement of sustainability at the groundwater basin level. In this policy review and analysis, we describe the horizontal, vertical, and network governance processes occurring under SGMA and discuss how they interact with one another. In doing so, we review existing governance theories that can help to shed light on how each governance process may unf…
Path Dependence, Evolution of a Mandate and the Road to Statewide Sustainable Groundwater Management
SGMA is a landmark transition in California water policy. For local governments engaged in managing at-risk groundwater basins, SGMA brought a transformation of responsibility and authority. These changes reflect a continuation of California water policy, rather than a disjuncture. This policy analysis describes the changing role of state government in groundwater management in California, explaining that role, including the passage of SGMA, thro…
Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States
Offshore wind farms are rapidly being permitted along the East Coast of the US, and with subsequent development could cumulatively affect seabird populations. Yet, the seabird guilds most likely at risk of cumulative effects have not been identified. Assessments of cumulative effects must first calculate the cumulative exposure of seabirds to areas suitable for offshore wind farms and then estimate how exposure will affect populations. This paper…
Flood concerns and impacts on rural landowners
Estate planning as a forest stewardship tool
Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research
The interfaces of public and private adaptation
Climate adaptation and development
Incorporating resilience into sustainability indicators
Incorporating resilience into sustainability indicators
Climate adaptation and development
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
The interfaces of public and private adaptation
Path Dependence, Evolution of a Mandate and the Road to Statewide Sustainable Groundwater Management
SGMA is a landmark transition in California water policy. For local governments engaged in managing at-risk groundwater basins, SGMA brought a transformation of responsibility and authority. These changes reflect a continuation of California water policy, rather than a disjuncture. This policy analysis describes the changing role of state government in groundwater management in California, explaining that role, including the passage of SGMA, thro…
International river basin organizations, science, and hydrodiplomacy
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes
Coordination mandates are used to steer collective action between local government agencies. When higher levels of government allow agencies to choose how to work together, the organizational forms and institutional arrangements they adopt likely influences their ability to achieve mandated coordinated outcomes. How group-level interactions influence achievement of coordinated outcomes is not well understood. California’s Sustainable Groundwater …
Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research
Groundwater Recharge to Support Wildlife and Water Users
The Heyborne Ponds Recharge Project is a multibenefit project that simultaneously seeks to promote wildlife conservation, to address threatened and endangered species recovery, to support recreation, and to facilitate water availability for agriculture. The project delivers water from the South Platte River to recharge ponds to provide habitat for migrating birds while concurrently providing a mechanism for water to infiltrate into the alluvial a…
An integrated method for evaluating community-based safe water programmes and an application in rural Mexico
The burden of diarrhoeal disease remains high in the developing world. Community-based safe drinking water programmes are being promoted as cost-effective interventions that will help reduce this illness burden. However, the effectiveness of these programmes remains under-investigated. The primary argument of this paper is that the biological exposure reductions underlying safe water interventions vary tremendously over space and time, and studie…
Incorporating resilience into sustainability indicators
An integrated method for evaluating community-based safe water programmes and an application in rural Mexico
The burden of diarrhoeal disease remains high in the developing world. Community-based safe drinking water programmes are being promoted as cost-effective interventions that will help reduce this illness burden. However, the effectiveness of these programmes remains under-investigated. The primary argument of this paper is that the biological exposure reductions underlying safe water interventions vary tremendously over space and time, and studie…
Climate adaptation and development
Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research
The interfaces of public and private adaptation
Flood concerns and impacts on rural landowners
Estate planning as a forest stewardship tool
Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States
Offshore wind farms are rapidly being permitted along the East Coast of the US, and with subsequent development could cumulatively affect seabird populations. Yet, the seabird guilds most likely at risk of cumulative effects have not been identified. Assessments of cumulative effects must first calculate the cumulative exposure of seabirds to areas suitable for offshore wind farms and then estimate how exposure will affect populations. This paper…
Focus on interactions between science-policy in groundwater systems
International river basin organizations, science, and hydrodiplomacy
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
Concurrent Governance Processes of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is a landmark policy that requires achievement of sustainability at the groundwater basin level. In this policy review and analysis, we describe the horizontal, vertical, and network governance processes occurring under SGMA and discuss how they interact with one another. In doing so, we review existing governance theories that can help to shed light on how each governance process may unf…
Path Dependence, Evolution of a Mandate and the Road to Statewide Sustainable Groundwater Management
SGMA is a landmark transition in California water policy. For local governments engaged in managing at-risk groundwater basins, SGMA brought a transformation of responsibility and authority. These changes reflect a continuation of California water policy, rather than a disjuncture. This policy analysis describes the changing role of state government in groundwater management in California, explaining that role, including the passage of SGMA, thro…
Groundwater Recharge for Drought and Endangered Species Protection
San Antonio Water Systems (SAWS) developed its H2Oaks aquifer storage and recovery project in response to pumping restrictions set on its primary source of water supply, the Edwards Aquifer. The H2Oaks project pumps water from the Edwards Aquifer during wet years and transports it to the H2Oaks project site, where it is injected into the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer for storage. Stored water is withdrawn to meet municipal demand when restrictions on Ed…
Groundwater Recharge to Address Seawater Intrusion and Supply in an Urban Coastal Aquifer
The Orange County Water District (OCWD) was created in 1933 by the California Legislature and tasked with managing water resources in Orange County. As a part of its strategy to fight seawater intrusion and guarantee a reliable groundwater supply in the basin, OCWD built a recycled wastewater facility that treats wastewater received from the Orange County Sanitation District and recharges the water into the basin through injection wells and infil…
Groundwater Recharge for a Regional Water Bank
The Kern Water Bank is a semi-private groundwater bank operated by the Kern Water Bank Authority in Kern County, CA. The bank stores water from the State Water Project (SWP), Central Valley Project (CVP), and the Kern River. It is massive in scale, covering over 20,000 acres, with approximately 2.5 million acre feet diverted to the bank since 1995. The bank stores water on behalf of its member water agencies, which include both public and private…
Introduction to the Special Collection
Unsustainable management of groundwater basins has led to groundwater depletion, with impacts to human and environmental systems that will be exacerbated by the hydrologic effects of climate change. Increasing inflows to groundwater basins through managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is a mechanism that can help bring aquifers into sustainable balance, yet in spite of significant physical potential, MAR remains underused. Increasing emphasis on the tec…
Groundwater Recharge to Address Integrated Groundwater and Surface Waters
The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) Recharge Program aims to recharge an average of 250,000 AFY to mitigate the effects of groundwater pumping on surface water resources and, in doing so, to reduce conflicts between surface and groundwater users. The Idaho Water Resources Board (IWRB) partners with canal and irrigation companies to use IWRB’s surface water rights to conduct aquifer recharge through in- and off-canal seepage and direct injectio…
Groundwater Recharge for Water Security
The Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA) was established in 1996 to make full use of Arizona’s Colorado River entitlement. It aims to address groundwater depletion in central Arizona and to protect Colorado River water users against future shortages due to interannual variability in water availability. Each year, the AWBA pays the costs to deliver any of the state’s unused entitlement to Colorado River water into central and southern Arizona an…
Groundwater Recharge to Support Wildlife and Water Users
The Heyborne Ponds Recharge Project is a multibenefit project that simultaneously seeks to promote wildlife conservation, to address threatened and endangered species recovery, to support recreation, and to facilitate water availability for agriculture. The project delivers water from the South Platte River to recharge ponds to provide habitat for migrating birds while concurrently providing a mechanism for water to infiltrate into the alluvial a…
Motivating the formation of partnerships by small water systems
Small community water systems (CWS) often have difficulty maintaining high-quality service provision. Partnerships can help alleviate these problems, yet may not be attainable or pursued. This research examines the perspectives of U.S. state agencies with drinking water primacy regarding the benefits of water systems partnerships and the points of leverage that can induce water systems to partner. It assesses the benefits, drawbacks, and barriers…
Not Whether to Coordinate, But How
A critical question in relation to inter-agency coordination is not only whether, but how, to coordinate. This question is particularly salient when agencies are subject to a top-down mandate. While inter-agency coordination can provide multiple benefits, agencies frequently have concerns about the potential risks of coordination. Differing coordination mechanisms may reduce or exacerbate those concerns. Depending on their coordination concerns, …
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes
Coordination mandates are used to steer collective action between local government agencies. When higher levels of government allow agencies to choose how to work together, the organizational forms and institutional arrangements they adopt likely influences their ability to achieve mandated coordinated outcomes. How group-level interactions influence achievement of coordinated outcomes is not well understood. California’s Sustainable Groundwater …
Institutional dependencies shape adaptation pathways for local service providers
Local governments around the world face mounting pressures that affect their provision of public services. To prepare for and respond to stressors and shocks, local service providers can choose from among a wide variety of actions. The adaptive actions they choose will influence which risks are addressed, when, and how. Selection of adaptive actions can also have long-term implications if the actions affect future options for adaptation. This res…
Meeting a multifaceted mission
As they respond to mounting climatic and socioeconomic stressors, drinking water utilities must make decisions that span a diverse scope of strategic, planning, and operational issues. Their decision making is guided, in part, by how actors within the organization collectively interpret the situation they face. This sense-making process is profoundly influenced by the organization’s institutional logics, the overarching sets of principles, assump…
Environmental Science (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Environmental planning (14 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Groundwater (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works)