Fields and Streams : Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science

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Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a...

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Main Author: Lave, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rosgen, David L.
Stream restoration.
Politics and government.
Neoliberalism.
Environmental sciences.
Ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Cours d'eau > Rehabilitation > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Neo-liberalisme > États-Unis.
Cours d'eau > Rehabilitation > États-Unis.
Sciences de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Neo-liberalisme > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Cours d'eau > Rehabilitation > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Neoliberalism > Economic aspects > United States.
Stream restoration > Economic aspects > United States.
Stream restoration > Political aspects > United States.
Environmental sciences > United States.
Neoliberalism > United States.
Stream restoration > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
United States > Environmental conditions.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
Electronic books.
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Summary:Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since the mid-1990s, many academic and federal agency-based scientists have denounced Rosgen as a charlatan and a hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natur.
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780820344744

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