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This book discusses the many meanings of "sustainability," explores the importance of economics in environmental policy-making, and highlights the schools of thought in environmental ethics. It concludes that public administrators can play an important role in ensuring that environmental sustainability is an integral part of American government.
List of contents
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
About the author
J. Michael Martinez is the author or editor of 20 books on American history and law including the Rowman & Littlefield titles A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II (2016), Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux, Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire during Reconstruction (2007). He teaches political science at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Summary
This book discusses the many meanings of "sustainability," explores the importance of economics in environmental policy-making, and highlights the schools of thought in environmental ethics. It concludes that public administrators can play an important role in ensuring that environmental sustainability is an integral part of American government.
