Maarten de Kadt

As a high school teacher, Maarten de Kadt was introduced to a destroyed but recovering Bronx River and used it to help students understand the possibilities of environmental recovery and of personal empowerment. Dr. de Kadt continues to be an environmental and community activist. He is a member of the Bronx River Alliance's Board of Directors.

In this book, Dr.de Kadt uses the story of this twenty-three mile urban river as an exemplar of US industrial history, clean neighborhoods and their relation to clean water bodies, and democratic community decision making--all the while examining the difficulty of reclaiming natural resources that have once been contaminated.