Managing the environment, managing ourselves : a history of American environmental policy / Richard N. L. Andrews.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: environment and governance -- Part One. Foundations -- Who owns the environmental? Historical content and colonial precedents -- The constitutional framework -- Part Two. Natural assets and urban living conditions -- Land and transport: commercial development as environmental policy -- Industrialization, resource differentiation, and public resource management -- Public health and urban sanitation -- Part Three. Multiple-use management -- The progressive era -- Conservative "normalcy" and new deal conservation -- Part Four. An environmental movement awakens -- Superpower and supermarket -- The rise of modern environmentalism -- Part Five. The modern environmental policy era -- Toward a national environmental policy -- The EPA: nationalizing pollution control -- Public lands and wildlife conservation -- Agricultural and urban environmental management -- Energy policy and climate change -- Environmental policy in a global economy -- Part Six. A new environmental policy era? -- The trump agenda -- Managing the environment, managing ourselves.

"In this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect environmental issues and public policy decisions today and posing the central policy challenges for the future. By analyzing environmental policies at their half-century marks, placing them within their historical contexts, and weaving together diverse threads-pollution, public health, land and wildlife conservation, energy, and others-Andrews paints a complete and unified narrative of the historical developments of American environmental policies and institutions. The previous edition brought the book up to date through President George W. Bush's first term; this third edition updates and revises the entire text, with a focus on more recent environmental politics and policy up through the Obama administration and into the Trump administration"-- Provided by publisher.