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The Politics of Environmental Reform: Controlling Kentucky Strip Mining book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of Environmental Reform Controlling Kentucky Strip Mining

By Pierre R. Crosson Copyright 1976
418 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge
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The Politics of Environmental Reform demonstrates how environmental laws affect local governments with Kentucky strip mining as its core example. Originally published in 1976, Landy’s research into environmental legislation in a state whose economy relies on the coal industry can easily be applied to all forms of government shedding light on issues such as policy initiation, federal-state... Read more

 List of Figures;  List of Tables;  Part One;  1. The Politics of Environmental Regulation: An Introduction  2. Kentucky Strip Mining: Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Issues  3. The Administration Faction: The Creation of a Political Organization  4. The Braintrust: The Development of Autonomous Values  5. Gubernatorial Leadership: The Preservation of Political Autonomy  6. Enacting the Strip Mine Control Act: Strategy and Tactics  7. The Implementation of Strip Mine Control ;  Part Two;  8. The Defeat of the Administration Faction: the Destruction of Political Autonomy  9. The Nunn Administration  10. The Ford Administration: The Partnership Philosophy  11. Conclusion: The Politics of Environmental Reform;  Footnotes;  Bibliography; Appendix

Biography

Marc Karnis Landy

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