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The Morning after Earth Day
Practical Environmental Politics
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2010
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A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publication
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental protection often remains paralyzed and polarized. But across the country, environmental pragmatism is gaining ground. The Morning after Earth Day explores how policymakers, business executives, and citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes making peace with surprising compromises.
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. They include 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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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3236-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-9112-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
153
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 11
1 We Have Seen the Enemy and It Is Us No access Pages 12 - 26
2 Yesterday's Agenda and Where It Came From No access Pages 27 - 50
3 Today's Puzzling Paradoxes No access Pages 51 - 89
4 The New Environmental Politics No access Pages 90 - 110
Epilogue: Turning Point or Stalemate? No access Pages 111 - 118
