Description
Daniel McCool chronicles the surging grassroots movement to bring America's rivers back to life and ensure they remain pristine for future generations. This book confirms the surprising news that America's rivers are indeed returning to a healthier, free-flowing condition. Through passion and dedication, ordinary people are reclaiming the American landscape, forming a nation-wide "river republic" of concerned citizens from all backgrounds and sectors of society. McCool profiles the individuals he calls "instigators," who initiated the fight for these waterways and have succeeded in the near-impossible task of challenging and changing the status quo. He ties the history, culture, and fate of America to its rivers and presents their restoration as a microcosm mirroring American beliefs, livelihoods, and an increasing awareness of our shared environmental fate.
About the Author
Daniel McCool is the director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Utah. He has won a number of awards for his teaching and publications, and his research focuses on water resources development, voting rights, American Indian water rights, and public lands policy. He has published widely in such journals as the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Political Research Quarterly, and the University of Texas Law Review. This is his eighth book.
Reviews
A broad, up-to-date, hopeful view of our nation's rivers. Kirkus Reviews McCool tempers the flow of statistics and environmental facts with liberal doses of wit and colorful anecdotes while offering a reassuring account of working-class citizens triumphing in a timely cause. Booklist Written in an easy-to-read narrative style that is at times poetic, River Republic is also filled with facts and political analysis. -- Rosemarie Howard Deseret News ...River Republic is an easy read that raises important questions about politics, money, and development along U.S. rivers while providing vibrant accounts of restoration projects all across the country. -- Adam Mandelman H-Environment Daniel McCool has done a terrific job -- Steve Johnson River Management Society Journal well-researched and well-written...Highly recommended. Choice An authoritative expose of the political economy of river management in the United States... An important book. River Republic offers essential lessons for entrenched water bureaucracy. Anthem EnviroExperts Blog
Awards
Runner-up for Green Book Festival in the Scientific category 2013.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231161312
Author Daniel McCool
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press