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Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition
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- English
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eBook - PDF
Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition
About this book
In this book Richard N. L. Andrews looks at American environmental policy over the past four hundred years, shows how it affects environmental issues and public policy decisions today, and poses the central policy challenges for the future. This second edition brings the book up to date through President George W. Bush's first term and gives the current state of American environmental politics and policy.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Environment and Governance
- 2 Historical Context: European Colonization and Trade
- 3 Colonial Precedents: Environment as Property
- 4 The Constitutional Framework
- 5 Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy
- 6 Agencies and Experts: The Beginnings of Public Management
- 7 Public Health and Urban Sanitation
- 8 Progressivism: Conservation in the Public Interest
- 9 Administering the Environment: Subgovernments and Stakeholders
- 10 Superpower and Supermarket
- 11 The Rise of Modern Environmentalism
- 12 Nationalizing Pollution Control
- 13 Reform or Reaction? The Politics of the Pendulum
- 14 The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy
- 15 Environmental Policy in a Global Economy
- 16 The Era of Base Politics
- 17 Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
- Chronology
- Notes
- References
- Index