Pathways for Getting to Better Water Quality: The Citizen Effect

Section I: Pathways.- Pathways to Better Water Quality.- Citizen Involvement.- Shared Leadership for Watershed Management.- Relationships, Connections, Influence and Power.- Turning Conflict into Citizen Participation and Power.- The Language of Conservation.- Section II: The Data.- Measuring the Citizen Effect: What Does Good Citizen Involvement Look Like?.- Regional Water Quality Concern and Environmental Attitudes.- Communities of Interest and the Negotiation of Watershed Management.- Upstream, Downstream: Forging Rural-Urban Partnerships for Shared Water Governance in Central Kansas.- Local Champions Speak Out: Pennsylvania’s Community Watershed Organizations.- Community Watershed Planning: Vandalia, Missouri.- Force and Economic Sanctions as Watershed Solutions.- Cross-cultural Collaboration for Riparian Restoration on Tribal Lands in Kansas.- Getting to Performance-based Outcomes at the Watershed Level.- A Farmer Learning Circle: The Sugar Creek Partners, Ohio.- Farmer Decision Makers: What are They Thinking?.- Sustainability of Environmental Management - the Role of Technical Assistance as an Educational Program.- Building Citizen Capacity.- Index.