Managing the environment, managing ourselves
Subtitle: a history of American environmental policy
By: Richard N.L. Andrews.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Environmental policy -- United States -- History.; Environmental management -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-501) and index.
Table of contents: value: Environment and Governance; value: Historical Context: European Colonization and Trade; value: Colonial Precedents: Environment as Property; value: The Constitutional Framework; value: Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy; value: Agencies and Experts: The Beginnings of Public Management; value: Public Health and Urban Sanitation; value: Progressivism: Conservation in the Public Interest; value: Administering the Environment: Subgovernments and Stakeholders; value: Superpower and Supermarket; value: The Rise of Modern Environmentalism; value: Nationalizing Pollution Control; value: Reform or Reaction? The Politics of the Pendulum; value: The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy; value: Environmental Policy in a Global Economy; value: The Era of Base Politics; value: Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves.