Title Managing the environment, managing ourselves : a history of American environmental policy / Richard N.L. Andrews

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 463 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 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 Summary Contains chronology of environmentally related events from 1487 to 1996 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Environmental policy -- United States Environmental management -- United States Environmental Monitoring -- history Environmental Pollution -- history POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General. Environmental management. Environmental policy. Umweltpolitik United States. USA Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300241501 030024150X

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