Beyond Superfailure

America's Toxics Policy For The 1990s
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-15448-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Despite numerous small success stories, the big picture of America’s toxics programs is one of overall failure. Superfund has failed to Clean up America’s worst dump sites; policies to regulate generation of new hazardous waste have foundered; standards have been set for only eight of several hundred air toxics; transportation spills and industrial

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazmanian, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Past Lessons and Future Promises -- Cleanup: Superfund or Superfailure? -- How Clean Is Clean? A Case Study of the Nation’s No. 1 Superfund Toxic Dump -- An Ounce of Prevention: Managing Today’s Wastes Successfully -- Engineering, Economics, and Politics: Technologies for Safe Hazardous Waste Management -- Beyond Hazardous Waste: Safe Management of Hazardous and Toxic Materials -- Just Say “No” — Facility Siting and the Failure of Democratic Discourse -- Looking Forward: An Effective Toxics Policy Agenda for the 1990s

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian, Professor of Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California