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Valuing clean air the EPA and the economics of environmental protection
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Valuing clean air : the EPA and the economics of environmental protection/ Charles Halvorson. |
| 개인저자 | Halvorson, Charles,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages): illustrations (some color). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Halvorson, Charles. Valuing clean air New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2021] 9780197538845 |
| ISBN | 9780197538876 0197538878 019753886X 9780197538852 0197538851 9780197538869 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction : save EPA -- The costs of pollution -- The doer : power in implementation -- A balancing act : regulatory review -- Putting the profit motive to work : regulatory reform -- Are you tough enough? : deregulation -- Markets for bads : cap-and-trade and the new environmentalism -- Epilogue : the EPA and a changing climate. |
| 요약 | "The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics. In a few short years, the environmental movement pushed Republican and Democratic elected officials to articulate a right to clean air as part of a bevy of new federal guarantees. Charged with delivering on those promises, the EPA represented a bold assertion that the federal government had a responsibility to protect the environment, the authority to command private business to reduce their pollution, and the capacity to dictate how they did so. But revolutions are always contested and the starburst of environmental concern that propelled the Clean Air Act and the EPA coincided with economic convulsions that shook the liberal state to its core. As powerful businesses pressed to roll back regulations, elected officials from both parties questioned whether the nation could keep its environmental promises. Pushing on, the EPA adopted a monetized approach to environmental value that sat at odds with environmentalist notions of natural rights but provided a critical shied for the agency's rulemaking, as environmental protection came to serve as a key battleground in larger debates over markets, government, and public welfare. The EPA's success and the potential limits of its monetary approach are evident in the very air we breathe today - far cleaner and healthier as a result of the EPA's actions, but holding new threats in a rapidly changing climate"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(단체명) | United States. --Environmental Protection Agency --History. United States. --Environmental Protection Agency. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Environmental policy --United States --History. Environmental protection --Economic aspects --United States --History. Environmental policy. Environmental protection --Economic aspects. |
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