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Essays outlining the emergence, evolution, and application of the Clean Water Act and its impact on the waters of New York's Lake Champlain Basin.
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in focus, The Clean Water Act and the Lake Champlain Basin features the work of scholars who think deeply about the connections between the 1972 U.S. Clean Water Act and the waters of the Lake Champlain Basin. Each contribution considers contemporary policy-relevant issues; in so doing, this collection examines and emphasizes the background, scope, and impacts of policy decisions. As such, the focus of this book is purposely broad, considering local, state, federal and binational perspectives. Full of fresh arguments and insights about a complex and relatively understudied relationship and expanding on previous academic treatments of the Clean Water Act, this volume also complements applied studies centered on Lake Champlain Basin water-management issues and activities.
"This book provides the broad-ranging, up-to-date account of the Clean Water Act, water management, and environmental policy in the Champlain Valley that we've long needed. Diverse in perspective, yet cohering around these themes, the essays provide a clear-eyed account of the successes of the past fifty years, the limitations of the CWA, and of possible paths forward." — James Rice, Tufts University, Department of History and Program in Environmental Studies
Christopher Kirkey is Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Timothy Mihuc is Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Lake Champlain Research Institute, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.