Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) Pdf Reviews

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Release: 2005-04-29
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0262693194
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 Download Swimming Upstream for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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