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9781884836749

Redefining Efficiency

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    9781884836749

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    1884836747

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Akron Pr
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Summary

Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency 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, this 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. Redefining Efficiency 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1(12)
PART I. EARLY POLLUTION CONCERNS AND THE DIRECTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Pollution Concerns Articulated
13(21)
Concerns in the Oil Fields
34(29)
Keeping Oil in the Pipelines
63(26)
Refineries, Pollution Concerns, and Technological Change
89(29)
What Do with Tankers?
118(19)
PART II. FIGHTING POLLUTION UNDER AN EFFICIENCY ETHIC
Validating a Guiding Ethic
137(32)
Success and Failure in the Oil Fields
169(26)
Eliminating Corrosion and Monitoring Flows
195(20)
Creating a Pollution Control Manual
215(32)
The Ocean Ignored As Tankers Grow
247(22)
PART III. REGULATING INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY TO MAINTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Crude Awakening
269(32)
Redefining Efficiency
301(22)
Environmental Objectives and the Evolution of Tankers
323(18)
Closing the Loop
341(16)
Conclusion 357(8)
Notes 365(54)
Bibliography 419

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