Crisis of the Wasteful Nation
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation

Author: Ian Tyrrell

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-01-19

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 022619776X

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This study examines rising alarm over waste of natural resources, and its use by Theodore Roosevelt and his administration to further objectives of conservation and an American form of empire. These objectives encompassed both preservationist and utilitarian approaches, centred on efficiency, but interpreting efficiency in social and political rather than economic terms. These policies revealed an emerging idea of environmental 'habitability' that presaged modern interest in sustainability.

Water and American Government
Water and American Government

Author: Donald J. Pisani

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-12-31

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0520230302

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Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States, shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself.