Employing case studies and examples from all over America and abroad, the authors chronicle the history of toxics disasters and success stories and recommend basic changes in the way the US should handle environmental problems of all types in the future. Chief among these prescriptions is a new emphasis on community-based discussion and decision-making, in combination with federal macrolevel policy guidelines and industry-initiated policy innovations. The authors set forth detailed suggestions for ways to replace today's political inertia with initiatives they characterize as "positive action compliance, positive action permitting and positive action cleanup".
- ISBN10 0813314674
- ISBN13 9780813314679
- Publish Date 20 July 1992
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 296
- Language English