Screen LibraryEnvironmental sustainability and American public administration : past, present, and future /
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators who work inside of those institutions, play a crucial role in developing and implementing environmental sustainability policies. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 319 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-303) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781498509664 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 1498509665 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9781498509671 (electronic) 1498509673 (electronic) |
| Index Number: | HC110 |
| CLC: |
F171.245 X-017.12 |
| Call Number: | X-017.12/M385-1 |
| Contents: | Defining and understanding sustainability -- The "dismal science" of economics -- The ethics of sustainability -- The rise of the American adminitrative state -- The development of federal environmental law -- A brief history of the modern enivornmental movement -- Interest groups and the environmental lobby -- Sustainability and American public administration: where do we go from here? |