Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer - Hardcover

by Brock Ternes (Author), Gregory Fulkerson (Foreword by), Alexander Thomas (Foreword by)

Based on surveys with over 850 participants, this book explores the ways in which well ownership shapes people's beliefs and actions about water in Kansas. The author frames well owners as a community pivotal to safeguarding aquifers that is defined by their understanding of drought and reliance on aquifers.

Author Biography

Brock Ternes is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington.