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Fields and Streams : Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science.
Title:
Fields and Streams : Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science.
Author:
Lave, Rebecca.
ISBN:
9780820344744
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (161 pages)
Series:
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Contents:
Fields and Streams -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- NEOLIBERAL SCIENCE REGIMES -- BUILDING AN EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK FOR THE ROSGEN WARS -- RESEARCH METHODS AND TERMINOLOGY -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK -- CHAPTER TWO Stream Restoration and Natural Channel Design -- STREAMS AND RESTORATION -- What Rivers and Streams Do -- Undoing Anthropogenic Damage -- KEY PARTICIPANTS IN THE STREAM RESTORATION FIELD -- Nongovernmental Organizations -- Clients and Consultants -- University- and Agency-Based Scientists -- Federal and State Resource and Regulatory Agency Staff -- NATURAL CHANNEL DESIGN -- The Rosgen Classification System -- The Natural Channel Design Approach -- Restoration Techniques -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE The History of Stream Restoration and the Rise of Rosgen -- DAVE ROSGEN AND THE HISTORY OF STREAM RESTORATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- THE CHANGING POWER STRUCTURE OF THE STREAM RESTORATION FIELD -- The Power Structure of Stream Restoration in the Mid-1990s -- The Power Structure of the Stream Restoration Field in the Mid-2000s -- STREAM RESTORATION IN NORTH CAROLINA -- EXPLANATIONS FROM WITHIN THE FIELD -- CHAPTER FOUR Capital Conflicts -- THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ROSGEN WARS: CLAIM VERSUS COUNTERCLAIM -- 1. Objections to Rosgen's Claims of Doability -- 2. Objections to the Exclusive Use of NCD -- 3. Claims that NCD Infers Process from Form -- 4. Critiques of NCD's Insistence on Stability -- 5. Claims that NCD Does Not Pay Sufficient Attention to Biology and Ecology -- 6. Arguments that NCD Is Overreliant on Bankful Discharge -- 7. Claims that NCD Is Overly Interventionist -- 8. Critiques of Rosgen's Scientific Practice -- NCD PRACTITIONERS' COUNTERCLAIMS -- 1. Counterclaims that NCD Is Not the Enemy -- 2. Assertions that Critics Have No Practical Experience and Thus No Standing.

3. Claims that Critics' Objections Are Based on Naïveté -- 4. Claims that Critics' Objections Are Based on Ignorance -- CRITIQUE AS MOBILIZATION OF CAPITAL -- 1. Species of Capital -- 2. Capital in Practice -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE Building a Base of Support -- UNIVERSITIES AND THE (MIS)EDUCATION OF RESTORATION FIELD PARTICIPANTS -- RESTORATION SHORT COURSES -- THE SHORT COURSES AS SHAPERS OF PRACTICE -- Short Course Organization: "A specific form of educative action" -- Short Course Content: "[W]hich make[s] possible the choice of objects, the solution of problems, and the evaluation of solutions" -- BECOMING THE STANDARD OF PRACTICE -- Rosgen's Classification System as Lingua Franca -- Design Guidelines as Standards of Practice -- Short Courses as a Key Source of Educational Capital -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER SIX The Political Economy of Stream Restoration -- POLITICAL-ECONOMIC INFLUENCES ON THE STREAM RESTORATION FIELD -- Policy and Economic Influences -- Neoliberalism and the Stream Restoration Field -- Privatization of knowledge claims -- Shifting toward applied work to meet market demands -- Market-based environmental management: creating metrics to define commodities -- The Relative Autonomy of the Stream Restoration Field -- REFLECTING ON BOURDIEU THROUGH THE LENS OF THE ROSGEN WARS -- Settling Conflicts: Who Matters -- The Bounded Character of Fields -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusions -- THE FUTURE OF STREAM RESTORATION -- BRIDGING POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND STS -- CRITICAL PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE -- APPENDIX Interview and Survey Metadata -- NOTES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Stream Restoration and Natural Channel Design -- CHAPTER THREE. The History of Stream Restoration and the Rise of Rosgen -- CHAPTER FOUR. Capital Conflicts -- CHAPTER FIVE. Building a Base of Support.

CHAPTER SIX. The Political Economy of Stream Restoration -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.
Abstract:
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 Natural Channel Design approach, classification system, and short-course series are not only accepted but are viewed as more legitimate than academically produced knowledge and training. Rosgen's methods are now promoted by federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, as well as by resource agencies in dozens of states. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Lave demonstrates that the primary cause of Rosgen's success is neither the method nor the man but is instead the assignment of a new legitimacy to scientific claims developed outside the academy, concurrent with academic scientists' decreasing ability to defend their turf. What is at stake in the Rosgen wars, argues Lave, is not just the ecological health of our rivers and streams but the very future of environmental science.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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