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Series Forward.. Preface.. Contributors.. I Watershed Management Approaches in the United States.. 1 Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management.. 2 Eras of Water Management in the United States: Implications for Collaborative Watershed Approaches.. 3 Legitimacy and Watershed Collaborations: The Role of Public Participation.. II Collaborative Engagement Processes in Watersheds.. 4 A Trust-Based Guide to Stakeholder Participation.. 5 Citizen Participation and Representation in Collaborative Engagement Processes.. III Measuring and Explaining the Success of Watershed Partnerships.. 6 Theoretical Frameworks Explaining Partnership Success.. 7 Do Watershed Partnerships Enhance Beliefs Conducive to Collective Action?.. 8 Are Trust and Social Capital the Keys to Success? Watershed Partnerships in California and Washington.. IV Conclusions.. 9 Conclusions and Recommendations.. References.. Index

In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers.Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management. Inglés