Facilitating Watershed Management Fostering Awareness and Stewardship

by France, Robert L.; Abbott, Robert M.; Adams, Carolyn A.; Apfelbaum, Steven I.; Brown, Sandra; Bonnell, Joe; Bowling, Chester; Brukilacchio, Lisa; Bullard, Kathleen; Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Chandler, Mark; Damon, Betsy; Fletcher, David F.; Harries, Mags; Héde

• ISBN13: 9780742533646
• ISBN10: 0742533646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from being knowledgeable stewards of watersheds to becoming wise managers of watersheds.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
Overview: The Sociology of Watershed Stewardship and Management	15	(2)
Buzzwords and Benchmarks: Ecosystem Health as a Management Goal	17	(12)
Robert J. Steedman
Response: Integrating Human and Environmental Aspirations	25	(4)
Into the Great Wide Open: Rethinking Design in an Era of Economic, Social, and Environmental Change	29	(16)
Robert M. Abbott
Response: Watershed Health as Wealth and Other ``Capital'' Ideas	43	(2)
Innovation Diffusion and Water-Sensitive Design	45	(10)
Thomas Richman
Response: Making Sure Paradigm Shift Happens	52	(3)
Agency-Sponsored Alternative Dispute Resolution Process in Urban River Management	55	(16)
David O. Mendelsohn
Response: Managing Watersheds by Managing People	68	(3)
Watershed Management---The Never-Ending Story	71	(22)
Carolyn A. Adams
Response: The Art of Watershed Gardening	90	(3)
WatershedAtlas.com: Educating the Public	93	(10)
Suzanne Meyer
Response: Virtual, Spatial, and Temporal Tours	101	(2)
Watermarks: Imprinting Water(shed) Awareness through Environmental Literature and Art	103	(26)
Robert L. France
David F. Fletcher
Response: Engaging the Aquatic Muse	122	(5)
PART II: EDUCATION OUTREACH
Overview: The Pedagogy of Watershed Stewardship and Management	127	(2)
Watershed Management Education and Training CD-ROMs	129	(16)
Paul Zandbergen
Sandra Brown
Hans Schreier
Response: Electronically Expanding Watersheds through Distance Learning	142	(3)
A New Role for University Extension in Water Resources Management	145	(14)
Joe Bonnell
Chester Bowling
Response: Participatory Education	156	(3)
Saving Species by Saving Watersheds: Poster Development and Community Participation	159	(14)
Mark Chandler
Response: Information Transfer and Local Empowerment	170	(3)
Exploring Water: Art and Physics in Teaching and Learning with Water	173	(24)
Elizabeth Cavicchi
Response: Intimate Liquid Encounters---Teaching the Teachers	195	(2)
Taking It to the Streets: Mystic Watershed Awareness Efforts Merge with Public Art	197	(20)
Lisa Brukilacchio
Jennifer Hill
Response: Ripple Effects---Making Water Visible by Making Waves	215	(2)
Developing a Public Education Toolbox for a Contested Wetland in Los Angeles	217	(14)
Wendy Rains
Ruth Lansford
James Landry
Response: Multiple Educational Challenges for Nonprofit Stewardship Groups	228	(3)
Applying the Theory: Design/Build Models for Water Harvesting and Watershed Awareness	231	(28)
Daniel Winterbottom
Response: Teaching and Learning by Doing	252	(5)
PART III: DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
Overview: The Phenomenology of Watershed Stewardship and Management	257	(2)
The Touch of Water: Artists Working with Water and Communities	259	(22)
Mags Harries
Lajos Heder
Response: Establishing Environmental Awareness through Water Artistry	278	(3)
Elevating Wetland Consciousness: Environmental Education and Art	281	(12)
Peter H. North
Response: Curing Cancer by Applying Bandages of Functional Art	291	(2)
Combining Art and Science: The Living Water Garden in Chengdu, China	293	(16)
Betsy Damon
Anne H. Mavor
Response: Role of High-Visibility Demonstration Projects	307	(2)
Riparian Pocket Parks as a Means for Physically and Conceptually Connecting People to Urban Waters	309	(12)
Kathleen Bullard
Response: Recognition on the Way to Restoration	318	(3)
Stormwater Management: A Primer and Guidelines for Future Programming and Innovative Demonstration Projects	321	(16)
Steven I. Apfelbaum
Response: Developing Cost-Effective and Integrative Water Management	334	(3)
Watershed Management as Urban Design: The Civic Hydrology of Bellevue, Washington	337	(16)
Kathy Poole
Response: Lives Linked by Liquid	350	(3)
Message in the Medium: Watershed Awareness through Design of a Watershed Education Center	353	(22)
Nancy Rottle
Response: Practicing What Is Preached	372	(3)
Index	375	(8)
About the Editor	383