Description
Book SynopsisPresents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems.
Trade Review"This book would be a stimulating choice for a graduate seminar bringing in students and fac- ulty from all across the university to discuss the multiple ways in which we see and value rivers (or other ecosystems, for that matter), and how we might best recognize those multiple viewpoints." * Basic and Applied Ecology *
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Anthropocenes: A Fractured Picture
Jason M. Kelly
PART ONE. METHODS
2. Ecosystem Service-Based Approaches for Status Assessment of Anthropocene Riverscapes
Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey
3. Political Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in the Blue Nile Basin
Sina Marx
4. Rivers at the End of the End of Nature: Ethical Trajectories of the Anthropocene Grand Narrative
Celia Deane-Drummond
5. Rivers, Scholars, and Society: A Situation Analysis
Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms
PART TWO. HISTORIES
6. An Anthropocene Landscape: Drainage Transformed in the English Fenland
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith
7. A Western European River in the Anthropocene: The Seine, 1870–2010
Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel
8. Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and Agency
Philip V. Scarpino
PART THREE. EXPERIENCES
9. The Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Community Responses to an Environmental Crisis in the Early Anthropocene
Helen Berry
10. Engineering an Island City-State: A 3D Ethnographic Comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road
Stephanie C. Kane
11. Decoding the River: Artists and Scientists Reveal the Water System of the White River
Mary Miss and Tim Carter
12. What Is a River? The Chicago River as Hyperobject
Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
