Rebecca Lave is an assistant professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Geography at Indiana University.
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
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