Description: A theoretical and empirical study of the "quiet revolution" in watershed management that marks a shift away from bureaucratic, top-down decision making.
Brief description: Paul A. Sabatier is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis.
Review Quotes: "This is one of the most complete, current, rigorous, and worthwhile treatments of the problem of creating watershed management institutions. The book draws on the scholarship of a wide diversity of scholars, but integrates it in a novel and original fashion. "Swimming Upstream" is must reading for all scholars in this field."--Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University