The undamming and restoration of rivers is a major component of our broader environmental movement. There are ecological, economic, and social justice issues enveloped by initiatives involving river restorations, and its time to focus our attention on these concerns.
In this book, Richard M. Robinson reviews the removal of big concrete, big earthen, and low-head dams along North Americas larger and smaller rivers. Chapters highlight issues and contradictions related to dam safety, dam removals, and river restoration. The resulting book provides key insights into the economics and ecology of environmental restoration, our water resource management, and environmental justice.
1. The Environmental Movement Begins: Maines Rivers.-
2. Big Concrete,
the Tennessee River and the New Deal.-
3. Environmental Justice in the
Olympics and on the Ottaway.-
4. The Glen Canyon Mistake.-
5. After the Gold
Rush: Klamath River Justice.-
6. Columbia River and Salmon Passage.-
7. The
Low-Head Dams of Industry and the Mahoning River.-
8. The Very Old and Quaint
Early Dams of New England.-
9. An Old Commonwealths Industrial and Flood
Control Dams.-
10. Dam Safety Standards, Rehabilitations, and Failures.-
11.
Answering the Call of the Wild in a Kayak.-
12. Over Engineering the Big
Muddy.-
13. Our Age of River Restoration.
Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business Administration at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia). He is the author of Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations (2023), Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse (2021), Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty (2024), and The Imperfect Duties of Management (2018). He served as editor for The Journal of Economics and Finance.
