Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves A History of American Environmental Policy

Name: Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves A History of American Environmental Policy
Price: 8.03 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780300077957

ISBN-10: 0300077955

ISBN-13: 9780300077957

Edition: 1999

Authors: Richard N. Andrews

List price: $42.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $8.03

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

This history of American environmental policy traces the interplay between environmental policies and broader patterns of social, economic and political history. It examines current policy and shows how it emerged from earlier patterns.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 474
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.848



Preface


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


Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves


Chronology


Notes


References


Index