Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches To Watershed Management - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0262693194 ISBN 13: 9780262693196

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2005

Riassunto

In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers.

Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.

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L'autore:

Arnold Vedlitz holds the Bob Bullock Chair in Government and Public Policy and is Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University.

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• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0262693194
• ISBN 13: 9780262693196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 327
• Redattore: Sabatier Paul A., Focht Will, Lubell Mark, Trachtenberg Zev, Vedlitz Arnold, Matlock Marty