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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Prior to the Nixon administration, environmental policy in the
United States was rudimentary at best. Since then, it has evolved
into one of the primary concerns of governmental policy from the
federal to the local level. As scientific expertise on the
environment rapidly developed, Americans became more aware of the
growing environmental crisis that surrounded them. Practical
solutions for mitigating various aspects of the crisis - air
pollution, water pollution, chemical waste dumping, strip mining,
and later global warming - became politically popular, and the
government responded by gradually erecting a vast regulatory
apparatus to address the issue. Today, politicians regard
environmental policy as one of the most pressing issues they face.
The Obama administration has identified the renewable energy sector
as a key driver of economic growth, and Congress is in the process
of passing a bill to reduce global warming that will be one of the
most important environmental policy acts in decades.
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy will be a
state-of-the-art work on all aspects of environmental policy in
America. Over the past half century, America has been the world's
leading emitter of global warming gases. However, environmental
policy is not simply a national issue. It is a global issue, and
the explosive growth of Asian countries like China and India mean
that policy will have to be coordinated at the international level.
The book will therefore focus not only on the U.S., but on the
increasing importance of global policies and issues on American
regulatory efforts. This is a topic that will only grow in
importance in the coming years, and this will serve as an
authoritative guide to any scholar interested in the issue.
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