The Three Epochs of the Environmental Movement
The Three Epochs of the Environmental Movement
This chapter discusses the three epochs around which the book is organized. The first begins largely in the early 1970s with the rise of environmentalism as a social and political movement in the United States and the buildup of the system of federal command-and-control environmental regulation, with its hallmark clean air, clean water, toxics and hazardous waste legislation, creation of the U.S. EPA, and strong federal presence. The second epoch is marked by the drive for efficiency and flexibility in the regulatory apparatus created in the first epoch. The third epoch brings into focus the potentiality of sustainable development and sustainable communities as we project further into the twenty-first century. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Keywords: environmental protection, environmental policy, regulatory framework, sustainable development, environmentalism, United States
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