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    Title
    Dam Politics
    Subtitle
    Restoring America's Rivers
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) William R. Lowry
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 320
    Width: 152 mm
    Height: 229 mm
    Thickness: 21 mm
    Weight: 431 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780878403905
    ISBN 10: 0878403906
    Classifications
    BICMainSubject: RNF
    BIC subject category: TNFD
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1KBB
    Dewey: 333.91621530973
    LC classification: TC556 \.L6
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T7.3
    BIC subject category: JPRB
    BISAC category code: NAT029000
    Dewey: 333.9162153
    BISAC category code: BUS054000
    BISAC category code: NAT011000
    BISAC category code: POL028000
    Illustrations note
    bibliographical references , index
    Publisher
    Georgetown University Press
    Imprint name
    Georgetown University Press
    Publication date
    01 April 2003
    Publication City/Country
    Washington, DC/US
    Biographical note
    William R. Lowry is an associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a U.S. Navy veteran and has worked as a seasonal ranger in Yosemite National Park. An avid outdoorsman, Lowry has canoed, rafted, swam in, or hiked along nearly every river discussed in Dam Politics.
    Promotional headline
    " Dam Politics is a comprehensive, perceptive, and lively analysis of an exciting new era in river and ecosystem restoration policies. William R. Lowry's conceptually rich and insightful investigation of major cases in dam removal and river restoration efforts across the United States is a significant contribution to scholarship on environmental politics and policy. The book's analytical framework, integrating ideas from policy implementation, protection of common pool resources, and the role of advocacy coalitions, explains much about the variation in policy change across different river systems, and has considerable utility as well for other studies of environmental policy change." -- Michael E. Kraft, Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin Green Bay
    Review quote
    " Dam Politics is a greatly useful contribution to the literature on dams and rivers. Lowry's writing style makes for easy reading, and the pages are filled with facts, history, politics, policy, and personalities. Readers involved in their own particular river or locality will find meaty information about other similar places and issues, and this surely is the best indicator of the utility of the book. This volume is likely to have a lasting and positive influence on river restoration. [Dam Politics] is not only a fine read, it is a great service." -- Ecological Restoration
    Table of contents
    1. Going Down to Rivers: The Possibility of a Journey to Restoration 2. Testing the Waters: The Types of Possible Changes 3. Launching the Trip: Into a New Era for American Rivers 4. Getting in the Strong Current: Embracing New Goals 5. Scouting the Rapids: Learning for the Future 6.Waiting Out the Storms: Opportunities and Challenges 7. Keeper Holes: Difficult Problems to Solve 8. Taking Out: Restorations as Symbols of Shifting Tides Appendix 1: Bibliographical EssayAppendix 2: Statistical Analyses of Dam Removals NotesBibliographyIndex