Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science

摘要: Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that neoliberal emphasis on privatization and commercialization knowledge has fundamentally changed way is funded, organized, viewed in United States. Stream restoration practice a startling state. The most widely respected expert field, Dave Rosgen, private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since mid-1990s, many academic federal agency - based scientists have denounced Rosgen as charlatan hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natural Channel Design approach, classification system, short-course series are not only accepted but more legitimate than academically produced methods now promoted by agencies including Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service, Fish Wildlife Resources Conservation well resource dozens states. Drawing work Pierre Bourdieu, demonstrates primary cause success neither method nor man instead assignment new legitimacy to claims developed outside academy, concurrent scientists' decreasing ability defend their turf. What at stake wars, Lave, just ecological health our rivers streams very future environmental science.