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RECORD NUMBER: 2339 OF 4132Main Title | Managing the environment, managing ourselves : a history of American environmental policy / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Andrews, Richard N. L. | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Yale University Press, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 1999 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 39625256 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 0300073585 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780300073584 (cloth : alk. paper); 0300077955 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780300077957 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Environmental policy--United States ; Environmental management--United States ; Umweltpolitik ; USA ; Environnement--Politique gouvernementale-- Etats-Unis ; Environnement--Gestion-- Etats-Unis | ||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xiii, 463 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-451) and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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 he 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. Managing the environment, managing ourselves. |