Overview
- Examines the effect of environmental advocacy on watershed restoration in the Great Lakes
- Utilizes a reasoned discourse framework and an Areas of Concern model
- Employs nine case studies across the rust belt areas of North America
Part of the book series: Environmental Politics and Theory (EPT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North America’s Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US. Robinson examines twenty of the forty-eight sites included in the Areas of Concern Program of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the US. These twenty include heavily urbanized locales such as those along the River Rouge and Detroit River, but also more pristine locales such as the St. Louis River that flows through Duluth. Additionally, Robinson examines challenging river restorations within the northeastern industrial corridor which are led by effective local environmental advocacy organizations: the Penobscot Nation of Indigenous People, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and the Housatonic River Valley Association. All of these river restorations are led and managed by the environmental experts of (i) state and federal agencies, (ii) academia, and (iii) environmental NGOs. Local restorations of industrially degraded water bodies now compose a significant segment of the environmental movement and, ultimately, Robinson demonstrates that local environmental advocacy organizations can help marshal state and local funding for those efforts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia), USA. He is the author of Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse (2021), Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty (2021), and The Imperfect Duties of Management (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations
Authors: Richard M. Robinson
Series Title: Environmental Politics and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28439-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28438-0Published: 01 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28441-0Due: 01 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28439-7Published: 30 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-670X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 434
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Political Science, Sociology, general, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Political Communication