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OverviewToday, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. This book examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. The book also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hugh S. GormanPublisher: The University of Akron Press Imprint: The University of Akron Press Dimensions: Width: 23.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.956kg ISBN: 9781884836749ISBN 10: 1884836747 Pages: 451 Publication Date: 01 September 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHugh S. Gorman is assistant professor of environmental history and policy at Michigan Technological University. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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