Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems A Troubled Sense of Immensity 1st Edition by Robert Adler ISBN 1597260572 978-1597260572

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ISBN 10: 1597260572 

ISBN 13: 978-1597260572

Author: Robert W. Adler 

Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in portions of the river and its surrounding lands. Environmental restoration on the scale of the Colorado River basin is immensely challenging; in addition to an almost overwhelming array of technical difficulties, it is fraught with perplexing questions about the appropriate goals of restoration and the extent to which environmental restoration must be balanced against environmental changes designed to promote and sustain human economic development.

Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems explores the many questions and challenges surrounding the issue of large-scale restoration of the Colorado River basin, and of large-scale restoration in general. Robert W. Adler evaluates the relationships among the laws, policies, and institutions governing use and management of the Colorado River for human benefit and those designed to protect and restore the river and its environment. He examines and critiques the often challenging interactions among law, science, economics, and politics within which restoration efforts must operate. Ultimately, he suggests that a broad concept of “restoration” is needed to navigate those uncertain waters, and to strike an appropriate balance between human and environmental needs.

While the book is primarily about restoration of Colorado River ecosystems, it is also about uncertainty, conflict, competing values, and the nature, pace, and implications of environmental change. It is about our place in the natural environment, and whether there are limits to that presence we ought to respect. And it is about our responsibility to the ecosystems we live in and use.

Table of contents: 

1 INTRODUCTION RETAKING OLD GROUND
2 THE LIVING ARTERY DISRUPTIONS TO THE RIVERS LINEAR CONNECTIONS
3 ONLY THE HILLS WILL KNOW CHANGES IN THE WATERSHED
4 TREE OF THE PEOPLE TREE OF LIFE
5 DOWN THE GREAT UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION IN THE FACE OF SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY
6 CASTING OF THE LOTS CONFLICTING METHODS AND GOALS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
7 OWNERSHIP OF UNOWNABLE THINGS PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AT THE WATERS EDGE
8 AN ELUSIVE AND INDEFINABLE BOUNDARY RESTORATION AND POLITICAL BORDERS
9 REVISITING THE LAW OF THE RIVER AS A RESTORATION STRATEGY
10 RETHINKING WATER USE AND MANAGEMENT AS A RESTORATION STRATEGY
11 RETHINKING RECREATION AS A RESTORATION STRATEGY
12 RETHINKING POWER GENERATION AS A RESTORATION STRATEGY
13 RESTORATION AND AESTHETIC VALUES
14 INTO NEW DIMENSIONS
15 ENDNOTES
16 INDEX
17 THE LOVELY AND THE USABLE TOWARD A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO RESTORATION
18 RESTORING ECOSYSTEM PRACTICES
19 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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