Pathways for Getting to Better Water Quality: The Citizen Effect
Editors: Wright Morton, Lois, Brown, Susan S. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Covers understanding and solving local problems of non-point source water pollution
- Provides a framework and empirical evidence to document the many ways people engage each other to make sense of and solve shared watershed concerns
- Examines the idea that citizens are an untapped resource when it comes to solving water quality problems
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- About this book
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The citizen effect refers to the many ways people engage science, technology and each other to identify and solve local watershed and water resource problems. The waters of the United States are sources of pride and prosperity, and they are intimately connected to the land. Citizens have both rights to use and responsibility for conserving, protecting and sustaining these public water resources. However, streams, rivers and lakes across the country are becoming degraded and in danger of losing their capacity to meet the needs of the human, plant and animal populations which depend on them. While many point sources of pollutants can be and have been addressed by regulation, nonpoint source pollution resulting from independent land use decisions across a broad landscape, especially in agriculture, remains a very difficult issue. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress singles out nonpoint source pollution as one of the biggest environmental challenges of the 21st century. There is increasing evidence that persistent nonpoint source water problems can be effectively addressed when public deliberation is linked to scientific knowledge and technical expertise. The subject of this book is human social interactions. We present qualitative and quantitative studies of citizens’ individual and collective efforts to work through the complex issues associated with watershed management. These results are intended to provide insight and practical knowledge that can be used by those who are working to bring change and long-lasting protection and improvement to U.S. waters.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Pathways to Better Water Quality
Pages 3-14
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Citizen Involvement
Pages 15-28
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Shared Leadership for Watershed Management
Pages 29-39
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Relationships, Connections, Influence, and Power
Pages 41-55
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Turning Conflict into Citizen Participation and Power
Pages 57-66
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pathways for Getting to Better Water Quality: The Citizen Effect
- Editors
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- Lois Wright Morton
- Susan S. Brown
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4419-7282-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-7282-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-7281-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4899-8128-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 273
- Topics
