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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Richard N. L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States--History.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 513 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy decisions, and identifying key policy challenges for the future. Andrews crafts a detailed and contextualized narrative of the historical development of American environmental policies and institutions. This volume presents an extensively revised text, with increased detail on the fifty-year history of the modern environmental policy era and is updated through the Obama and Trump administrations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Environment and Governance

2. Who Owns the Environment? Historical Context and Colonial Precedents

3. The Constitutional Framework

4. Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy

5. Industrialization, Resource Differentiation, and Public Resource Management

6. Public Health and Urban Sanitation

7. The Progressive Era

8. Conservative “Normalcy” and New Deal Conservation

9. Superpower and Supermarket

10. The Rise of Modern Environmentalism

11. Toward a National Environmental Policy

12. The EPA: Nationalizing Pollution Control

13. Public Lands and Wildlife Conservation

14. Agricultural and Urban Environmental Management

15. Energy Policy and Climate Change

16. Environmental Policy in a Global Economy

17. The Trump Agenda

18. Man aging the Environment, Managing Ourselves

Chronology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25263-3

OCLC:

1140789190