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An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between ecosystem function and sustainable human habitation for one of the great rivers of the world. Topics include: geological origins, the watershed, basic hydrology, and estuarine dynamics; habitats and plants, energy flow, and nutrient dynamics; the invertebrates; fishes, fisheries, and other animals; water quality, water supply, and sewage treatment; sediment dynamics and PCBs; colonization and revolution; industrialization and transformation of the landscape; the Storm King controversy, conservation and environmentalism