ENSP 102 Lecture 2: History of Environmental Policy

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Environmental Science and Policy
• Course: ENSP 102
• Professor: Goger

Document Summary

Question: why is it important to learn the history of the environmental movement: understand forces that shaped policy in the past, learn from and try to avoid past mistakes, patterns/themes. Progressive era (1890-1915) natural resources: preservation, conservation. Teddy: economic development, teddy roosevelt adopted this approach to resource use (balanced, ryan zinke (secretary of the interior) compares himself to. Improvements in public health and illnesses: wastewater treatment began, some air pollution ordinances, outgrowth of industrial revolution, at local not state or national level. New deal 1930s: fdr response to great depression/dust bowl, economic development, environmental restoration, examples, civil conservation corps (ccc, hoover dam, parallels with today, significant drought in california, bringing jobs back through rebuilding infrastructure. Increase public interest in recreation, affluence, quality of life: distance from pres. Environmental policy under clinton (1990s: generally an advocate of the environment (al gore vp, republican congress wants to role back environmental protections, reinvention/market-based solutions/sustainable development.