Rewilding the Urban Frontier -

Rewilding the Urban Frontier

River Conservation in the Anthropocene

Greg Gordon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
344 Seiten
2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3061-4 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene—that is, creating self-sustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.
More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature. Once a necessity for the development of civilization, by the twentieth century America’s rivers became neglected and abused, channelized, dammed, and filled with sewage and toxic waste. While acknowledging the profound impact our species has had on the natural world, and on rivers in particular, Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the Anthropocene presents opportunities for rethinking our relationship to the natural world and potentially healing the age-old rift between humans and nature.

Although the Clean Water Act of 1972 spurred a cleanup of the nation’s waterways, explosive urban growth has since fragmented the wildlife corridors and ecosystems along our rivers. The contributors to this volume contend that if done right, rewilding urban rivers can help avoid further loss of biodiversity and simultaneously address environmental and social inequities.

Greg Gordon is a professor of environmental studies at Gonzaga University. He is the author of When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron and The Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah’s Canyon Country.  

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Origins
Greg Gordon
Part 1. Headwaters: Reconciling Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Trauma
1. Haunted
Heidi Lasher
2. We Buried Our People along the River
Margo Hill
3. Terms and Conditions Apply
Greg Gordon
Part 2. Tributaries: How City Rivers Make River Cities
4. Wild, Managed, and Reclaimed: An Environmental History of the San Antonio River Watershed
Char Miller
5. From Floodplain to Kayak Park: Recreation, Restoration, and Economic Development along the Boise River
Jennifer Stevens
6. Urban Ecology: Rewilding Rivers and Creating Outdoor Classrooms in Milwaukee
Christian C. Young
7. The Lost River: The Revitalization of the Jordan River in the Salt Lake Valley
Marian L. Rice
Part 3. Convergence: Old Rivers, New Plumbing
8. Engineering Nature: Denver and the South Platte River
Brian M. Murphy
9. Cyborg Salmon and Plumbed Basins: Ambivalence and Compromise on the Deschutes
Kirsten Rudestam
10. Neon River: Rethinking Chicago Environmental History and Personhood in the Age of Humans
Shawn Bailey
Part 4. Delta: Rewilding’s Perils
11. A River Lament: New Creek and the People Who Loved It Near to Death
Robert Bartlett
12. Restoration’s Dark Side: Gentrification and Daylighting the Saw Mill River in Yonkers, New York
C. Ian Stevenson
13. Angling in the Anthropocene: Carp and the Making of Race on the Los Angeles River
Bryan B. Rasmussen
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 photographs, 3 illustrations, 8 maps, index
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10 1-4962-3061-2 / 1496230612
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-3061-4 / 9781496230614
Zustand Neuware
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