Rivers of the Anthropocene

Jason M. Kelly is Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Philip Scarpino is Director of the Public History Program and Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Helen Berry is Reader in British History and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Newcastle University. James Syvitski is Executive Director of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System and Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Michel Meybeck is Emeritus Senior Scientist at the French National Center for Research, METIS Laboratory at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).

• List of FiguresForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Anthropocenes: A Fractured PictureJason M. KellyPART ONE. METHODS2. Ecosystem Service-Based Approaches for Status Assessment of Anthropocene RiverscapesAndy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey3. Political Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in the Blue Nile BasinSina Marx4. Rivers at the End of the End of Nature: Ethical Trajectories of the Anthropocene Grand NarrativeCelia Deane-Drummond5. Rivers, Scholars, and Society: A Situation AnalysisKenneth S. Lubinski and Martin ThomsPART TWO. HISTORIES6. An Anthropocene Landscape: Drainage Transformed in the English FenlandJan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith7. A Western European River in the Anthropocene: The Seine, 1870–2010Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel8. Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and AgencyPhilip V. ScarpinoPART THREE. EXPERIENCES9. The Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Community Responses to an Environmental Crisis in the Early AnthropoceneHelen Berry10. Engineering an Island City-State: A 3D Ethnographic Comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard RoadStephanie C. Kane11. Decoding the River: Artists and Scientists Reveal the Water System of the White RiverMary Miss and Tim Carter12. What Is a River? The Chicago River as HyperobjectMatt Edgeworth and Jeffrey BenjaminBibliographyContributorsIndex

"This book would be a stimulating choice for a graduate seminar bringing in students and fac- ulty from all across the university to discuss the multiple ways in which we see and value rivers (or other ecosystems, for that matter), and how we might best recognize those multiple viewpoints."