| Description |
xiii, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| 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 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. Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental management -- United States.
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Environmental policy -- United States.
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| LC no. |
98034987 |
| ISBN |
0300073585 (hbk) |
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0300077955 (paperback) |
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