Managing the Environment, Ourselves

A new edition of a definitive history of American environmental policy, focusing on policies from 1970 to the Trump administration and their historical context A new edition of a definitive history of American environmental policy, focusing on policies from 1970 to the Trump administration and their historical context In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy decisions, and identifying key policy challenges for the future. Andrews crafts a detailed and contextualized narrative of the historical development of American environmental policies and institutions. This volume presents an extensively revised text, with increased detail on the fifty-year history of the modern environmental policy era and is updated through the Obama and Trump administrations.

This history of American environmental policy traces the interplay between environmental policies and broader patterns of social, economic and political history. It shows what is unique about contemporary environmental policy, and how it emerged from earlier patterns and precedents.