Explorations in environmental history : essays /
Exploration in Environmental History represents four decades of writing from one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of environmental history. Samuel Hays's dedication and research is apparent in every one of these essays, four of which are published here for the first time.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1998
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Joel A. Tarr; Introduction: An Environmental Historian Amid the Thickets of Environmental Politics; The Big Issues; The Limits-to-Growth Issue: A Historical Perspective; Value Premises for Planning and Public Policy: The Historical Context; Public Values and Management Response; The Role of Urbanization in Environmental History; The Future of Environmental Regulation; Forest Debates; The New Environmental Forest; The New Environmental West; A Challenge to the Profession of Forestry; Foreword to Frederick Frankena, Strategies of Expertise in Technical Controversies.
- Human Choice in the Great Lakes WildlandsThe Politics of Clean Air; Clean Air: From the 1970 Act to the 1977 Amendments; Clean Air: From 1977 to 1990; Emissions Trading Mythology; The Role of Values in Science and Policy: The Case of Lead; Environmental Politics Since World War II; The Structure of Environmental Politics Since World War II; Three Decades of Environmental Politics: The Historical Context; A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Environmentalism; Environmental Political Culture and Environmental Political Development: An Analysis of Legislative Voting, 1971-1989.
- The Politics of Environmental AdministrationNotes; Index.
