Managing the environment, managing ourselves:a history of American environmental policy
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Yale University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New Haven |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Carrier Form: | xvii, 515 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780300111248 (pbk. : alk. paper) 030011124X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | X3 |
CLC: |
X3-097.12 X-017.12 |
Call Number: | X-017.12/A569/2nd.ed. |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Environment and Governance -- Historical Context: European Colonization and Trade -- Colonial Precedents: Environment as Property -- The Constitutional Framework -- Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy -- Agencies and Experts: The Beginnings of Public Management -- Public Health and Urban Sanitation -- Progressivism: Conservation in the Public Interest -- Administering the Environment: Subgovernments and Stakeholders -- Superpower and Supermarket -- The Rise of Modern Environmentalism -- Nationalizing Pollution Control -- Reform or Reaction? The Politics of the Pendulum -- The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy -- Environmental Policy in a Global Economy -- The Era of Base Politics -- Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves. |