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<h1 id="lead">Title: Citizen Discourse on Contaminated Water, Superfund Cleanups, and Landscape Restoration: (Re)making Milltown, Montana</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Author: Susan J. Gilbertz and Trudy Milburn</h1>
<h1 id="lead">ISBN: 9781604977448</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Date: February, 2011</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Price: $104.99 / £ 61.99</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Pages: 240</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Format: Hardcover</h1>
<h1 id="lead">Size: 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate</h1>
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<p><b>*This book is in the <i>Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America </i>book series </br>
(Series editors: Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly)</b></p>
<p>In 1981 residents of Milltown, Montana, learned that several wells providing
drinking water to local residences were contaminated with arsenic. Suddenly,
this tiny community, at the confluence of the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork
Rivers, was on its way to becoming one of the most expensive Superfund
Cleanup projects in the United States. </p>
<p>Arsenic is not immediately toxic to humans, but prolonged exposure to arsenic
increases incidents of cancer and premature loss of life. The contamination
clearly represented a risk to human health, and by 1983 Milltown was
officially designated as a Superfund site and a cleanup was mandated. </p>
<p>The source of the contamination seemed obvious, yet it took several years
for the scientists to agree upon just how it was that the groundwater had become
contaminated. In the meantime, concerned citizens groups formed to
participate in the emerging public processes, some pressing for both remediation
of the groundwater situation and for restoration of the river. To the dismay of locals, it was not until 2005 that the federally approved Record of Decision was in place and the combined remediation/restoration
project could begin. </p>
<p>Over the years, there has been a call for increasing public
participation in management decisions concerning natural
resource issues. However, locals are given little or no guidance
in navigating the plethora of meetings, agencies, officials,
and processes that are germane to such issues. As
well, when the landscape of concern is ‘home’ to some but
‘cause’ to others it is unlikely that participating parties will
merge into a coherent local polity. </p>
<p>In such circumstances, the senses of place that are
brought to bear can be widely and profoundly divergent.
In the end, involved locals and resource agents can be
overwhelmed by the fragmented and disjointed nature of
the discourses that result from public participation. </p>
<p>This book traces the primary concerns of Milltown locals
as they discussed the contamination and the cleanup
in 2005. The purpose of this study was to investigate a
public engaged in discussions about a local landscape,
expressly to determine the degree to which intersecting
and diverging notions of place could be understood as a
coherent discourse. </p>
<p>In stark contrast to the two to three minutes citizens are
typically afforded at public hearings, the authors set out
to expose the details of how locals combined information
and logics into sense-making narratives. They employed
an in-depth interviewing technique that encouraged the
participants to elaborate rather than truncate their concerns. In doing so, the authors exposed distinct sets of
interpretive resources employed by locals both as means
of understanding their situation and for projecting into
the future. </p>
<p>Environmental resource managers, geographers, and
scholars interested in communication about the environment
will all find this book of particular relevance. In
addition, scholars interested in the political implications
of such work will also find this book a unique resource
for coordinating public opinions. </p>
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<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
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<h1>List of Tables</h1>
<h1>List of Figures</h1>
<h1>Acknowledgments</h1>
<h1>List of Abbreviations</h1>
<h1>Chapter 1: The Milltown Cleanup</h1>
<h1>Chapter 2: Composing a Place</h1>
<h1>Chapter 3: Local Compositions of History and Artifact</h1>
<h1>Chapter 4: Local Compositions of Systems and (Scientific) Problems</h1>
<h1>Chapter 5: Local Compositions of Habitat, Nature, and Contested Authority</h1>
<h1>Chapter 6: Local Compositions of Ideology, Wealth, and Aesthetics</h1>
<h1>Chapter 7: Integrating Compositions: Emergent Senses of Place</h1>
<h1>Appendices</h1>
<h1>References</h1>
<h1>Index</h1>
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<h1>About Author</h1>
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<p>Susan J. Gilbertz is an assistant professor of geography at Montana State University–Billings where she also served as the director of the Environmental Studies Program. She holds a PhD from Texas A&M University and MA and BS degrees from the University of Wyoming. She was the principle investigator on the <i>Yellowstone River Cultural Inventory—2006</i>. Her most recent works, in <i>Rural Sociology</i> and the <i>Professional Geographer</i>, examine the social and cultural dynamics of amenity landscapes. She also serves on the Yellowstone River Conservation District Council’s Technical Advisory Committee, a group that works closely with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate the cumulative effects of human activities on the river.</p>
<p>Trudy Milburn was an associate professor of communication at the University of Southern California, California State University–Channel Islands, and Baruch College/City University of New York. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MA from Texas A&M University, and a BA from the University of California–Davis. Dr. Milburn’s previous book <i>Nonprofit Organizations: Creating Membership through Communication</i> was published by Hampton Press. She has published in the <i>Journal of Applied Communication Research</i>, <i>Business Communication Quarterly</i>, <i>Communication Yearbook</i>, <i>Communication Studies</i>, and <i>The International and Intercultural Communication Annual</i>. Dr. Milburn also serves as chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association.</p>
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