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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9100973 EAN: 9780262693196 ISBN: 0262693194 Label: The MIT Press Manufacturer: The MIT Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 343 Publication Date: 2005-05-01 Publisher: The MIT Press Studio: The MIT Press
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A Thorough and Insightful Treatment Comment: It seems logical to consider the watershed as whole, and to address all the social, economic, and environmental problems collaboratively, and with all of the stakeholders at the table, yet this is not how it has been done in the past. "Swimming Upstream" describes the new, collaborative approaches that are being taken in the field of watershed management. I like the way that the authors both describe the theory of the approach, and present many concrete examples from several states of how the process works in practice. This well written book makes a significant contribution to the field. I highly recommend it. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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.