书目名称 | Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations |
编辑 | Richard M. Robinson |
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概述 | 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 rus |
丛书名称 | Environmental Politics and Theory |
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描述 | .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, u |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | Environment; Climate change; Environmental Restoration; Water resource; Rivers; Watersheds; Great Lakes; Ar |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28439-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-28441-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-28439-7Series ISSN 2731-670X Series E-ISSN 2731-6718 |
issn_series | 2731-670X |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |