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• Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2014 John Friedmann Book award given by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning</PrizeName> 2014
• Winner of Winner, 2014 John Friedmann Book award given by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2014
• Winner of Winner, 2014 John Friedmann Book award given by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning</PrizeName> 2014

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""Karvonen tackles a complex environmental issue by providing very good case studies and well-imagined solutions without relying on cliched approaches found in other studies. The case studies provide concrete examples for explaining the shortcomings of more traditional and compartmentalized approaches to environmental governance, and the possibilities of a more nuanced 'civic environmentalism.' That he has grounded his theory in concrete examples related to contemporary policy concerns is refreshing.""--Martin V. Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and Director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston -- Martin Melosi ""Andrew Karvonen blends literary theory, history, the social and natural sciences and other disciplines to shed new light on the relationship between urban ecology and environmental politics. His book helps to reveal the often hidden but important connections among people, nature and technology and, at its best, informs us about better, more effective approaches to environmental policy and management.""--William Shutkin, President, Presidio Graduate School; author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century -- William Shutkin ""In The Politics of Urban Runoff, Andrew Karvonen explores the hydro-social dynamics of the modern city through a wealth of insights, not only spanning the bio-physical dimensions to urban space, but also changing cultural, ecological, political and technological aspects of urban nature.""--Matthew Gandy, Professor and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory, Department of Geography, University College London; author of Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City -- Matthew Gandy

Karvonen tackles a complex environmental issue by providing very good case studies and well-imagined solutions without relying on cliched approaches found in other studies. The case studies provide concrete examples for explaining the shortcomings of more traditional and compartmentalized approaches to environmental governance, and the possibilities of a more nuanced 'civic environmentalism.' That he has grounded his theory in concrete examples related to contemporary policy concerns is refreshing. --Martin V. Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and Director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston -- Martin Melosi Andrew Karvonen blends literary theory, history, the social and natural sciences and other disciplines to shed new light on the relationship between urban ecology and environmental politics. His book helps to reveal the often hidden but important connections among people, nature and technology and, at its best, informs us about better, more effective approaches to environmental policy and management. --William Shutkin, President, Presidio Graduate School; author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century -- William Shutkin In The Politics of Urban Runoff, Andrew Karvonen explores the hydro-social dynamics of the modern city through a wealth of insights, not only spanning the bio-physical dimensions to urban space, but also changing cultural, ecological, political and technological aspects of urban nature. --Matthew Gandy, Professor and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory, Department of Geography, University College London; author of Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City -- Matthew Gandy

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Andrew Karvonen is Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism in the University of Manchester's School of Environment and Development and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin.

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