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Arnold Vedlitz

Arnold Vedlitz holds the Bob Bullock Chair in Government and Public Policy and is Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University.

Titles by This Editor

Swimming Upstream

Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management
Edited by Paul A. Sabatier, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz and Marty Matlock

In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems.