Introduction and Acknowledgments
Part I: Concepts
Chapter 1: Defining and Understanding Sustainability
Chapter 2: The “Dismal Science” of Economics
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Sustainability
Part II: Processes and Institutions
Chapter 4: The Rise of the American Administrative State
Chapter 5: The Development of Federal Environmental Law
Part III: Modern American Environmentalism
Chapter 6: A Brief History of the Modern Environmental Movement
Chapter 7: Interest Groups and the Environmental Lobby
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 8: Sustainability and American Public Administration: Where
Do We Go From Here?
References
J. Michael Martinez teaches political science at Kennesaw State University and works as an environmental affairs representative for a manufacturing company.
This book illustrates the critical roles played, challenges faced,
and choices made by public managers in the development of
environmental policy in the United States, and that will confront
them if sustainability is to become a central animating principle
of governance in the United States. It is broad in intellectual
scope, balanced in perspective, and written in accessible prose.
Readers new to the fields of public administration or environmental
governance will gain a basic a sense for major issues and actors in
each, how the two relate to each other, and how both fit into
historical debates over the proper role of the government in a
democratic republic. They will also appreciate that linking the two
to advance sustainability will not be a task for the timid,
impatient, or strategically-challenged in our Madisonian
system.
*Robert F. Durant, American University*
In this lucid and broad sweeping introduction to the US
environmental movement, Martinez introduces the reader to the
political and economic institutions undergirding the nation as
necessary to understanding the environmental movement and the quest
for sustainability. It is equally suited for college and
advanced secondary school introductory classes and the lay reader
as an approachable primer to the myriad of ideas, institutions, and
seminal figures involved from the conservation movement of
the early 20th century to the modern environmental and
sustainability movement today.
*Daniel A. Mazmanian, University of Southern California*
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