The Morning After Earth Day Practical Environmental Politics
- List Price: $45.99
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
After a generation of progress in reducing large sources of industrial and municipal pollution and in improving management of public lands, today's environmental conflicts are more complex. They involve controlling pollution caused by farmers, small businesses, drivers of aging cars, and homeowners, as well as minimizing ecological threats on private land. Remedies often lie in politically treacherous territory -- persuading ordinary people to change their daily routines rather than ordering big business to adopt new technology or government officials to manage land differently.
As Mary Graham shows, practical approaches are resolving immediate disputes and providing clues for future policy. But core dilemmas remain, including how to reconcile environmental protection with respect for private property, how to balance federal and state authority, and how much to rely on behavioral versus technological change. Only by reclaiming the debate about these dilemmas from extremists and confronting them head-on will the nation build a solid foundation for the next generation of environmental policy.
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