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Full Description
This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s.
While effective against pollution, the new regulatory system led to economic decline, antagonism in the business community and political division. The book traces and compares US policies with more successful policies adopted by the EU in the 1990s. With an afterword reviewing the dramatic events of the second Trump administration, the book suggests future pathways for reducing polarization and promoting reform.
Contents
1. An Introduction
2. North American Indians and Land Use before European Colonization
3. Colonial History up to 1829
4. The 19th Century
5. The 20th Century up to 1969
6. The Environmental Revolution of the 1970s
7. Other Developments in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Reagan Countermovement
8. Global Climate Change: George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton-Al Gore
9. George W. Bush and Barack Obama
10. Upheaval: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Trump 2.0
11. Comparisons Between US And European Law Making and Renewable Energy Progress
12. Policy Issues and Discussion
13. Pathways to Progress
Afterword
