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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Emison, Gerald Andrews |
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Journal:
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Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum |
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Volume:
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7 |
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Date:
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1996 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2789
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources |
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North America |
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Subject(s):
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environmental change--policy
adaptive systems
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Abstract:
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"During the 1970s and 1980s, the United States substantially improved its environmental quality. Since the early 1970's, the nations principal model for advancing environmental quality has been the command and control system. The command and control system is the exercise of the police power of the state to compel action by establishing standards and enforcing those standards through administrative and judicial actions. This approach depends on centralized knowledge, application of authority, and limited participation
in decision making by those who must carry out such decisions. In the 1990s, national environmental management has experienced a number of pressures that call into question continued use of the conventional approach of the 1970s and 1980s. Unconventional paradigms may offer better ways to advance national environmental quality."
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