Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves; A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition

by Richard N. L. Andrews

• ISBN13: 9780300111248
• ISBN10: 030011124X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this book Richard N. L. Andrews looks at American environmental policy over the past four hundred years, shows how it affects environmental issues and public policy decisions today, and poses the central policy challenges for the future. This second edition brings the book up to date through President George W. Bush's first term and gives the current state of American environmental politics and policy. "A guide to what every organizational decision maker, public and private, needs to know in an era in which environmental issues have become global."Lynton K. Caldwell,Public Administration Review "A wonderful text for students and scholars of environmental history and environmental policy."William L. Andreen,Environmental History

Author Biography

RICHARD N. L. ANDREWS is Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xiii
Environment and Governance	1	(13)
Historical Context: European Colonization and Trade	14	(14)
Colonial Precedents: Environment as Property	28	(23)
The Constitutional Framework	51	(20)
Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy	71	(23)
Agencies and Experts: The Beginnings of Public Management	94	(15)
Public Health and Urban Sanitation	109	(27)
Progressivism: Conservation in the Public Interest	136	(18)
Administering the Environment: Subgovernments and Stakeholders	154	(25)
Superpower and Supermarket	179	(22)
The Rise of Modern Environmentalism	201	(26)
Nationalizing Pollution Control	227	(28)
Reform or Reaction? The Politics of the Pendulum	255	(29)
The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy	284	(33)
Environmental Policy in a Global Economy	317	(33)
The Era of Base Politics	350	(46)
Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves	396	(15)
Chronology	411	(26)
Notes	437	(42)
References	479	(24)
Index	503