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Redefining Efficiency [electronic resource] : Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry / Hugh S. Gorman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorman, Hugh S. (Hugh Scott), 1957-
- Series:
- Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio)
- Technology and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pollution--Law and legislation--United States.
- Pollution.
- Environmental protection--United States--History.
- Environmental protection.
- Industrial efficiency--United States.
- Industrial efficiency.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 p. ) b/w photos
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Akron Press, Akron, OH : University of Akron Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. This book examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum.
- Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. This book examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. The book also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-439) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-91656-4
- 9786612916564
- 1-935603-28-0
- OCLC:
- 606599050
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