Saving the Chesapeake - Ramey, Andrew S.
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"Saving the Chesapeake is the first comprehensive history of the effort to save and protect the largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay, exploring changes in American environmental politics from the "green" heyday of the 1960s and 1970s to the environmental movement's collision with the administration of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and the movement's ultimate triumph over the anti-environmental backlash of the 1990s and early 2000s. The author argues that local concerns in the Chesapeake region are of national political importance, significantly complicating straightforward…mehr

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"Saving the Chesapeake is the first comprehensive history of the effort to save and protect the largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay, exploring changes in American environmental politics from the "green" heyday of the 1960s and 1970s to the environmental movement's collision with the administration of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and the movement's ultimate triumph over the anti-environmental backlash of the 1990s and early 2000s. The author argues that local concerns in the Chesapeake region are of national political importance, significantly complicating straightforward narratives about the environmental movement, the Republican Party, and our society's efforts to forge sustainable relationships with the natural world. Taking advantage of never before used archival sources, interviews with key players, and decades of scientific research, Saving the Chesapeake paints the most complete portrait to date of how one of America's most important environmental movements has saved the Bay and helped change U.S. environmentalism in the process"--
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Autorenporträt
Andrew S. Ramey is Director of Advising for the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.