{"product_id":"damming-debates-nik-janos-9780295755656","title":"Damming Debates: Navigating the Waters of Northwest Hydropower","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRivers, salmon, and dams collide where climate urgency meets justice, memory, and power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHydropower has long defined the Northwest. Massive dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers electrify cities, fuel industrial growth, and help create one of the lowest-carbon electricity systems in the United States. Yet those same structures also flooded Indigenous homelands, transformed river ecosystems, and helped drive the region's iconic salmon toward collapse. \u003ci\u003eDamming Debates\u003c\/i\u003e examines this profound dilemma at the heart of the region's energy future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Nik Janos follows the people shaping the hydropower debate--dam operators, policymakers, tribal leaders, environmental advocates, farmers, and river communities--as they wrestle with competing visions. The conflict is often framed as \"dams versus fish,\" but beneath that slogan lies deeper questions about climate responsibility, tribal sovereignty, economic livelihoods, and the meaning of environmental restoration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHydropower embodies a central paradox of the clean-energy transition: infrastructure that produces abundant low-carbon electricity can simultaneously perpetuate ecological damage and colonial extraction. In the Northwest, debates about dam removal, salmon recovery, and energy reliability reveal how difficult it is to reconcile climate urgency with justice and ecological repair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClear, nuanced, and grounded in voices from across the region, \u003ci\u003eDamming Debates\u003c\/i\u003e offers an essential guide to a consequential environmental crossroads--and to the broader challenge of building a just energy transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nik Janos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295755652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295755656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Nik Janos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997569528063,"sku":"9780295755656","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/damming-debates-nik-janos-9780295755656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}