Restoring America's Rivers

Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business Administration at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia). He is the author of Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations (2023), Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse (2021), Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty (2024), and The Imperfect Duties of Management (2018). He served as editor for The Journal of Economics and Finance.

• 1. The Environmental Movement Begins: Maine’s Rivers.- 2. Big Concrete, the Tennessee River and the New Deal.- 3. Environmental Justice in the Olympics and on the Ottaway.- 4. The Glen Canyon Mistake.- 5. After the Gold Rush: Klamath River Justice.- 6. Columbia River and Salmon Passage.- 7. The Low-Head Dams of Industry and the Mahoning River.- 8. The Very Old and Quaint Early Dams of New England.- 9. An Old Commonwealth’s Industrial and Flood Control Dams.- 10. Dam Safety Standards, Rehabilitations, and Failures.- 11. Answering the “Call of the Wild” in a Kayak.- 12. Over Engineering the “Big Muddy”.- 13. Our Age of River Restoration.