TY - JOUR AB - <p>An explanation of why the management of natural resources sometimes benefits an elite few, how the exercise of expertise contributes to this, and how traditional and inefficient resource use can continue. Water scarcity in Southern California forces the nation's largest irrigation district to conserve and transfer water to urban areas. Elites resist reform with expert help, and when overcome by events, use the authority of expertise to legitimize reforms which benefit their interests.</p> AU - Tom Waller DA - 1994/12// DO - 10.2458/v1i1.21155 IS - 1 VL - 1 PB - University of Arizona Libraries PY - 1994 TI - Expertise, Elites, and Resource Management Reform: Resisting Agricultural Water Conservation in California's Imperial Valley T2 - Journal of Political Ecology UR - http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/1525/ ER -