Author: LLOYD VERNON BRIGGSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Chasing the Wind
Author: Noga Morag-LevinePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400825857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 is widely seen as a revolutionary legal response to the failures of the earlier common law regime, which had governed air pollution in the United States for more than a century. Noga Morag-Levine challenges this view, highlighting striking continuities between the assumptions governing current air pollution regulation in the United States and the principles that had guided the earlier nuisance regime. Most importantly, this continuity is evident in the centrality of risk-based standards within contemporary American air pollution regulatory policy. Under the European approach, by contrast, the feasibility-based technology standard is the regulatory instrument of choice. Through historical analysis of the evolution of Anglo-American air pollution law and contemporary case studies of localized pollution disputes, Chasing the Wind argues for an overhaul in U.S. air pollution policy. This reform, following the European model, would forgo the unrealizable promise of complete, perfectly tailored protection--a hallmark of both nuisance law and the Clean Air Act--in favor of incremental, across-the-board pollution reductions. The author argues that prevailing critiques of technology standards as inefficient and undemocratic instruments of "command and control" fit with a longstanding pattern of American suspicion of civil law modeled interventions. This distrust, she concludes, has impeded the development of environmental regulation that would be less adversarial in process and more equitable in outcome.
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Author: Smoke Abatement
Author: Lucius Hanchett CannonPublisher:
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Category : Police power
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 2
Author: Susan BartonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries. Volume 2: Spa Tourism This volume traces the development of the spa from modest arrangements that emerged in the early modern period, to the large, thriving spa towns that existed in the nineteenth century. Documents show how spas evolved as well as the treatments they offered. Specific case studies of key spas - Bath, Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham - are used to illustrate this process. Bath's popularity as a tourist destination grew throughout the eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century it was one of the most popular destinations in Britain. Royal Tunbridge Wells was its greatest rival, and both towns benefited from the patronage of celebrated dandy, Beau Nash. Cheltenham's fashionable status was ensured by a visit from George III and his court in 1788.
Bulletin
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Air Pollution; a Bibliography
Author: Sara Jeannette DavenportPublisher:
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Category : Abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Civic Bulletin
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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