This book explores the meaning and role of “fair and reasoned discourse” in the

context of our institutions for environmental decision processes. The book

reviews the roles of our “environmental advocacy organizations”—such as The

Sierra Club, The Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund—in providing

and ensuring that our discourse and decisions are fair and reasoned according to

the criteria of being (i) inclusive of input from all affected, (ii) informed of relevant

scientific and socio-economic information, (iii)...

This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North America’s Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US. Robinson examines twenty of the forty-eight sites included in the Areas of Concern Program of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the US. These twenty include heavily urbanized locales such as those along the River Rouge and Detroit River, but also more pristine locales such as the St. Louis River that...