Open AccessA Prairie Home Revival
Author(s) -
FARBER BRIANNA
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/1559-8918.2016.01113
Subject(s) - agriculture , presentation (obstetrics) , politics , key (lock) , natural resource , resource (disambiguation) , quality (philosophy) , natural (archaeology) , environmental ethics , environmental planning , environmental resource management , political science , geography , ecology , computer science , environmental science , archaeology , law , epistemology , medicine , computer network , philosophy , biology , radiology
This presentation explores the struggle of natural resource conservation within Iowa industrial agriculture through the issue of water quality. I discuss the politics of scientific information, specifically how different powerful players use science to achieve their goals. Science can both reveal and obscure the history of Iowa's landscape, and history holds the key to understanding water quality problems. Finally, I describe what people are trying to do to bring industrial agriculture and prairie together to create a better system.