Saving the Chesapeake : The History of a Movement / Andrew S. Ramey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramey, Andrew S., 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water quality management.

Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Environmental conditions.

Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Environmental conditions.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Saving the Chesapeake is the first comprehensive history of the effort to save and protect the largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay, exploring changes in American environmental politics from the "green" heyday of the 1960s and 1970s to the environmental movement's collision with the administration of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and the movement's ultimate triumph over the anti-environmental backlash of the 1990s and early 2000s. The author argues that local concerns in the Chesapeake region are of national political importance, significantly complicating straightforward narratives about the environmental movement, the Republican Party, and our society's efforts to forge sustainable relationships with the natural world. Taking advantage of never before used archival sources, interviews with key players, and decades of scientific research, Saving the Chesapeake paints the most complete portrait to date of how one of America's most important environmental movements has saved the Bay and helped change U.S. environmentalism in the process"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. THE AMERICAN ESTUARY

ONE. "SAVE THE BAY"

TWO. THE STORM

THREE. THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AGREEMENT

FOUR. PROGRESS AND BACKLASH

FIVE. MAKING A NATIONAL TREASURE

CONCLUSION. LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Ramey, Andrew S. Saving the Chesapeake

ISBN:

9780813952673