Water and Power: The Environmental Politics of a Virginia Reservoir

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dc.contributor.authorFlanery, Trevor H.en
dc.contributor.committeechairToal, Gerarden
dc.contributor.committeememberBrowder, John O.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.departmentGeographyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:38:00Zen
dc.date.adate1999-05-22en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:38:00Zen
dc.date.issued1999-04-30en
dc.date.rdate2000-05-22en
dc.date.sdate1999-05-21en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis attempts to problematize the power relations in environmental administration and decision making through the analytical lens of environmental discourse and ethics. It argues that developments in environmental politics reveal a marked increase in democratic involvement through an emerging ecological civil society as reflected in the case study of the proposed King William Reservoir in Virginia. An ecological civil society could become the leaders and educators in communities to develop the expertise needed for responsible democratic participation in environmental decision making at the local level. As reflected in the case study, however, official political marginalization and exclusion of the public are continued features of federal and state environmental processes and structures. These processes and structures should be re-formed to include new democratic elements which would increase local control and responsibility for environmental transformations, and reduce conflicts overall.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-052199-105953en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-052199-105953/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33088en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartFLANERY.PDFen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectenvironmental ethicsen
dc.subjectenvironmental discourseen
dc.subjectsubpoliticsen
dc.subjectrisk societyen
dc.subjectenvironmental politicsen
dc.subjectecological civil societyen
dc.titleWater and Power: The Environmental Politics of a Virginia Reservoiren
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineGeographyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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