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Fields and streams : stream restoration, neoliberalism, and the future of environmental science / Rebecca Lave.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 12Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.Description: xiii, 170 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780820343921 (paperback)
  • 9780820343914 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.9162153 LAV 23 DS0973
LOC classification:
  • QH76 .L38 2012
Contents:
Stream Restoration and Natural Channel Design -- The History of Stream Restoration and the Rise of Rosgen -- Capital Conflicts -- Building a Base of Support -- The Political Economy of Stream Restoration -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Interview and Survey Metadata.
Summary: Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since the mid-1990s, many academic and federal agency-based scientists have denounced Rosgen as a charlatan and a hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natur.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.147-157) and index.

Stream Restoration and Natural Channel Design -- The History of Stream Restoration and the Rise of Rosgen -- Capital Conflicts -- Building a Base of Support -- The Political Economy of Stream Restoration -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Interview and Survey Metadata.

Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since the mid-1990s, many academic and federal agency-based scientists have denounced Rosgen as a charlatan and a hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natur.

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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