Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693194
• ISBN13: 9780262693196
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher