Redefining efficiency : pollution concerns, regulatory mechanisms, and technological change in the U.S. petroleum industry /

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Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gorman, Hugh S. (Hugh Scott), 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Akron Press, Akron, OH : University of Akron Press, ©2001.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio)
Temas:
Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects > United States.
Industrial efficiency > United States.
Environmental protection > United States > History.
Pollution > Law and legislation > United States.
Efficience dans l'industrie > États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
Environmental protection.
Industrial efficiency.
Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Pollution > Law and legislation.
Ecologische aspecten.
Olie-industrie.
Olieraffinaderijen.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, this book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. Redefining Efficiency also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781935603283
1935603280
9781935603290
1935603299
1282916564
9781282916562
9786612916564
6612916567

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