The Environmental Protection Hustle
Author : Bernard J. Frieden
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : Bernard J. Frieden
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0525560211
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
Author : Pamela Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190223073
Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) helps readers to access and navigate the robust system of environmental laws that have emerged to check the deleterious impact of human activity on the natural environment. Using concrete examples to cover historical background as well as contemporary scientific, legal, and economic topics, the book explores hot-button current issues from nanopollution to climate change.
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : David Schoenbrod
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300149611
After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field of environmental law, identify the core problems with existing environmental statutes and programs and explain how Congress can fix them. Based on a project the authors led that incorporated the work of more than fifty leading environmental experts, this book is a call to action through public understanding based on a nonpartisan argument for smarter, more flexible regulatory programs to stimulate the economy and encourage green technology.
Author : Randal O'Toole
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1933995270
Some people think they know all the answers. They know how far you should live from your job. They know how big your backyard should be. They know how cities and forests should grow. Government planners claim to know all of that and more. They say that if you want to live in pleasant communities, enjoy beautiful wilderness, and get to work on time, you should put them in charge. But 30 years of research has convinced Randal O’Toole—one of Newsweek's top 20 “movers and shakers in the West”—that they’re wrong. In The Best-Laid Plans, he shows in case after case that government planning frequently causes the very problems it is intended to solve. Combining theory with case studies to underscore his analysis, O’Toole calls for repealing federal, state, and local planning laws and proposes reforms that can help solve social and environmental problems without heavy-handed government regulation. The Best-Laid Plans is a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom about public lands, urban growth, and government planning.
Author : E.G. Vallianatos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1608199266
An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.
Author : Kent E. Portney
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262518279
A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in American cities, updated with the latest research and additional case studies. Today most major cities have undertaken some form of sustainability initiative. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons across cities, or theoretically grounded considerations of what works and what does not, and why. In Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously, Kent Portney addresses this gap, offering a comprehensive overview and analysis of sustainability programs and policies in American cities. After discussing the conceptual underpinnings of sustainability, he examines the local aspects of sustainability; considers the measurement of sustainability and offers an index of “serious” sustainability for the fifty-five largest cities in the country; examines the relationship between sustainability and economic growth; and discusses issues of governance, equity, and implementation. He also offers extensive case studies, with separate chapters on large, medium-size, and small cities, and provides an empirically grounded analysis of why some large cities are more ambitious than others in their sustainability efforts. This second edition has been updated throughout, with new material that draws on the latest research. It also offers numerous additional case studies, a new chapter on management and implementation issues, and a greatly expanded comparative analysis of big-city sustainability initiatives. Portney shows how cities use the broad rubric of sustainability to achieve particular political ends, and he dispels the notion that only cities that are politically liberal are interested in sustainability. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously draws a roadmap for effective sustainability initiatives.
Author : Wil Mara
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 9780531236031
The relationship between human progress and its effect on the natural environment has long been a contentious issue. This book details the history of the environmental movement in the United States, from its first stirrings in the writings of Henry David Thoreau and George Perkins Marsh to recent debates over climate change and energy sources.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Housing subsidies
ISBN :