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 the current state of American environmental politics and policy.
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"With this masterful second edition, Richard Andrews has written our best history of American environmental policy and politics. Past is prologue, and we are unlikely to find our way forward unless we understand how we arrived at the perilous place we are today. Andrews'' book is an indispensable guide through the past to the present."—James Gustave Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
"The book works as an excellent classroom text, covering important eras of environmental policymaking that are frequently ignored by other works in the field, and organizing its information in useful thematic chapters that increase its effectiveness as a teaching tool."—Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Frost Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science, Wellesley College
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Richard N. L. Andrews is Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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This review is from: Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, Second Edition (Paperback)
Andrews offers a long look, across over a century of US government policies for the environment. Many links are made to other related topics in US history. From urban sanitation and public health to pollution control. He traces land policies all the way back to English colonial times, and the acts of entities like the Virginia Company and Hudson's Bay Company.
In the 20th century, the book describes the establishment and running of many national parks. As well as much rural development, epitomised by the TVA. We also see the rise of the BLM, and how it has to mediate between conflicting demands for rural land usage, from farmers to miners to tourists.
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