Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
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Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves

A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves

A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition

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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

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Second Edition
  3. Preface to the First Edition
  4. 1 Environment and Governance
  5. 2 Historical Context: European Colonization and Trade
  6. 3 Colonial Precedents: Environment as Property
  7. 4 The Constitutional Framework
  8. 5 Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy
  9. 6 Agencies and Experts: The Beginnings of Public Management
  10. 7 Public Health and Urban Sanitation
  11. 8 Progressivism: Conservation in the Public Interest
  12. 9 Administering the Environment: Subgovernments and Stakeholders
  13. 10 Superpower and Supermarket
  14. 11 The Rise of Modern Environmentalism
  15. 12 Nationalizing Pollution Control
  16. 13 Reform or Reaction? The Politics of the Pendulum
  17. 14 The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy
  18. 15 Environmental Policy in a Global Economy
  19. 16 The Era of Base Politics
  20. 17 Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
  21. Chronology
  22. Notes
  23. References
  24. Index