Anne M. Rademacher is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

About the Series viii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. A Riverscape Undone 1
1. Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley 42
2. Knowing the Problem 57
3. War, Emergency, and an Unsettled City 91
4. Emergency Ecology and the Order of Renewal 116
5. Ecologies of Invasion 139
6. Local Rivers, Global Reaches 155
Conclusion. Anticipating Restoration 175
Notes 185
References 211
Index 237

Anne M. Rademacher is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.