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Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since the mid-1990s, many academic and federal agency–based scientists have denounced Rosgen as a charlatan and a hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natural Channel Design approach, classification system, and short-course series are not only accepted but are viewed as more legitimate than academically produced knowledge and training. Rosgen's methods are now promoted by federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, as well as by resource agencies in dozens of states.
Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Lave demonstrates that the primary cause of Rosgen's success is neither the method nor the man but is instead the assignment of a new legitimacy to scientific claims developed outside the academy, concurrent with academic scientists' decreasing ability to defend their turf. What is at stake in the Rosgen wars, argues Lave, is not just the ecological health of our rivers and streams but the very future of environmental science.
- Sales Rank: #1397031 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-01
- Released on: 2013-02-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Fields and Streams is a brilliant and pathbreaking work. Lave’s extensively researched and conceptually rich analysis weaves geography, environmental studies, and science studies into an analysis that is intellectually rigorous and practically relevant. It should be read not just by those interested in political ecology, ecological restoration, and water policy but by anyone interested in the complex relationships between environment, economics, science, and politics.
(Jake Kosek author of Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico)Lave’s style of writing is engaging, and her book contains powerful, provocative, and highly original findings. There’s a lot at stake in this story: how expertise is established and spread, the fate of university science in an era when extramural funding is paramount, the American love affair with all things pragmatic, and ultimately, which streams will flourish and which ones will flood, die, or kill fisheries.
(Julie Guthman author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California)[Lave’s] focus on Rosgen’s success and the evolution of how science receives legitimate analysis makes for a thought-provoking, well researched analysis key to any geography or environmental studies program.
(Midwest Book Review) About the Author
Rebecca Lave is an assistant professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Geography at Indiana University.
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More that about just stream restoration--a treatise on the political geography of environmental science
By John Jacob
David Rosgen is perhaps the best known practitioner of stream restoration in the United States, and perhaps beyond. His method, Natural Channel Design, is specified in many state and federal agency-funded projects. This method in fact is specified by the Harris County (Houston Texas) Flood Control District for the Memorial Park Demonstration Project, a “restoration” of an unchannelized segment of Buffalo Bayou on the southern flanks of Memorial Park, in Houston.
The interesting thing about the Rosgen system is the amount of controversy it has engendered. This controversy is referred to as the “Rosgen Wars” in Rebecca Lave’s book “Field and Streams”. The Rosgen system is in wide use by consultants and agencies, but many if not most academics are highly critical of the system.They claim that it oversimplifies very complex fluvial systems. Yet it is the very simplicity, Lave suggests, that has made the Rosgen NCD system so popular. Rosgen developed a classification system that is relatively easy to apply. Rosgen now has a Ph.D., but did not while he developed most of the system. It is thus a system developed almost wholly outside of academia, and in response to applied questions, and more particularly in response to market demands. This last is the “neoliberalism” referred in the subtitle of the book.
Lave is a social scientist not a fluvial geomorphologist. But she is a social scientist who studies scientists, and she uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the “political geography” of stream restoration science. Bourdieu is essentially interested in how scientists establish their claims to authoritative truth. The Rosgen wars is very interesting indeed because here we have a maverick on the fringes of academia in a very authoritative position, at least from the perspective of the market and the agencies that require restoration. And perhaps at least part of the reason for the resistance and rebellion on the academic side. Is this the model for the future of environmental sciences, as the subtitle suggests?
Lave points out the NCD has not been definitively proven to work. On the other hand, perhaps it has not been proven to fail (consistently anyway, since there are several reports of failure of NCD projects).
I have heard of course of Rosgen. I believe he has been brought to Houston several times. A colleague without formal training in hydrology or geology as far as I know, who took one or more of Rosgen’s short courses, told me he was a “fluvial geomorphologist”. When I asked him what school he went to, he quickly backed off of that claim. That little incident is perhaps indicative of the gulf between applied folks like Rosgen and the academics.
After reading this fine book, I am not really swayed one or or the other, more than I was before at least. As an academic, I would probably lean more in that direction. But as an applied academic (working for the Land and Sea Grant programs), I very much appreciate a system designed to be applied easily to the real world. I have to admit I find the term “Natural Channel Design” a bit disconcerting. This system is still about stream stabilization, so in that sense it is not natural at all.
I highly recommend this book. The implications go well beyond the Rosgen controversy. They apply anywhere that the market demands authoritative answers, and where practitioners outside of academia, and with little connection to academia, define the science that informs the practice. I am thinking in particular of wetland mitigation banking, but this could also apply to issues on the horizon such as carbon trading and other ecosystem services trading and mitigation.
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