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Chesapeake Waters - : Four Centuries of Controversy, Concern, and Legislation (Hardcover, 2)
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Chesapeake Waters - : Four Centuries of Controversy, Concern, and Legislation (Hardcover, 2)
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Although media reports suggest that there always has been public
concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly
recent phenomenon. For centuries people saw the bay as a bottomless
sink for waste products-a natural decomposer with the ability to
freshen itself with ocean inflows. Not until human health and
livelihood seemed threatened did people begin to think seriously
about management by such methods as treating sewage and limiting
seafood harvests. Chesapeake Waters chronicles four centuries of
public attitudes about the bay-and legislative responses to
them-from 1607, the date of the first English settlement in
Jamestown, Virginia, to the close of the twentieth century. In the
last few decades, wide-reaching measures by federal and local
governments have influenced how people use the bay: the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency completed a massive study of bay
quality; the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched; the Critical Area
Protection Act went into effect. The authors make sense of these
complex programs, place them in historical context, and explain how
they have improved the quality of bay waters. Chesapeake Waters is
as much about the power of public perception as it is about efforts
to oversee bay water quality. In a work rich with anecdotes and
historical art and photos, the authors relate how human attitudes
and ideas have shaped four hundred years of decisions about the
Chesapeake Bay.
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