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Aviram Sharma, American Environmental Policy: The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation, Science and Public Policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scw048
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In the last few decades, environmental regulations have garnered considerable interest among various stakeholders in both the developed and developing countries. Especially in the developed countries, various environmental policies have significantly shaped the trajectory of economies and influenced the social and environmental domains. Yet the academic literature on environmental regulations and the dynamics of their implementation is very thin. Daniel Press’s American Environmental Policy: The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation is a wonderful contribution to this domain, which fills in the gap in our current understanding.
Press deals with the American environmental policies and regulations of the last five decades. The country has more than a hundred-year-old history of environmental regulations. In both the popular and academic discourses on the environment, the US environmental regulations are commonly portrayed as success stories. This book busts this commonly held perception. It minutely discusses and analyses selected environmental policies and makes a case for a more complex understanding of environmental regulations and their outcomes in the USA.