River of Promise, River of Peril: Politics of Managing the Missouri River (Development of Western Resources): The Politics of Managing the Missouri River - Hardcover

John E. Thorson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700606483 ISBN 13: 9780700606481

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1994

Synopsis

Takes a comprehensive look at how and why the Missouri River Basin - now with six major dams and hundreds of miles of navigation canals - has become one of the most significantly altered drainage systems in America. The book also looks at the consequences of this.

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Review:

"This book is a tremendous addition to the field. It is the only up-to-date treatment of the Missouri River Basin. There is nothing of comparable breadth or quality on the subject. It will be a valuable resource to river managers, scholars, and citizens concerned about other river basins because the history of disputes and the ideas for cooperative resource management are applicable far beyond the Missouri River Basin."--Sarah F. Bates, coauthor of Overtapped Oasis: Reform or Revolution for Western Water

"Should be read by anyone interested in water resource administration and should prove useful to all those involved in planning the future of the Missouri River basin."--Journal of American History

"Packed with good information about water agreements and compacts. An indictment of federal planning, it carefully explains the shortcomings of the Pick-Sloan Plan and denounces, convincingly, the failure of Congress to respect Indian rights."--Environmental History Review

"Offers a very useful introduction to the development of policies and institutions for managing interstate resources like the Missouri River."--American Historical Review

"Thorson presents a well-documented argument, furnishing the reader with an historical, geographical, political, and economic survey of the basin. Historians, lawyers, policy analysts, environmentalists, and politicians will find the book invaluable as a case study and for the larger questions it raises about the management of water resources in the West."--Journal of the West

"A major contribution to western water studies."--Choice

"A quality introduction to the problems facing those who would manage multistate river basins."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly

"Anyone who wants to understand the complex issues facing Iowa and the rest of the basin states in managing the Missouri River should read Thorson𔃣s book."--Annals of Iowa

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0700606483
• ISBN 13: 9780700606481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284