The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons With the EU and Other Regions /

• Main Author: Manheim, Frank T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Political science.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Environmental Management.; Political Science.

The crisis of the Santa Barbara offshore oil spill in 1969 led to the passage of radically new environmental laws that made the United States an international leader in environmental protection at the time. Since then, environmental regulation has proved detrimental to both industrial and environmen...

Table of Contents:

• The Story
• Our Current Conflict
• Tracing the Roots of the Conflict
• Why History Is Important for Environmental Decision Making Today and Tomorrow
• The Environmental Revolution of the 1970s and Its Outcomes
• Why do Conflict and Polarization Matter?
• Foreign Experience
• Reform Efforts and the Future: Where Do We Go from Here?
• Cases, Documentation, and Policy Analysis
• Case Studies and Examples
• Policy Analysis.