Resources

Most issues surrounding freshwater are so complex that no single discipline can tackle those problems alone. To respond to growing interest in this field, we’ve put together a series of resources to highlight collaborative programs currently making freshwater research relevant to scientists, decision-makers, and the public alike. 

Articles

Academic Papers

Science Communication Resources

Books

  • Pushing the Paradigm of Global Water Security edited by Victoria Anker; Rachael Maysels; Maria Valasia Peppa
  • Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
  • Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River by Sally Sierer Bethea
  • Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman
  • Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
  • Indigenous Environmental Justice Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
  • Rivers of Power by Laurence C. Smith
  • Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
  • The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish by B.J. Cummings
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Ingrid R.G. Waldron
  • Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris
  • Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relationships Edited By Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken and Dieter Schott
  • Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s Freshwater Resources by Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Ashok K. Chapagain
  • Water: A Biography by Giulio Boccaletti
  • Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice Cleo Wolfe-Hazard
  • Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
  • To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers by Winona LaDuke
  • The Flow: Rivers, Water, and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer
  • In the Watershed: A Journey Down Maumee River by Ryan Schnurr
  • Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Randall Kenan

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