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Mastering Boston Harbor : courts, dolphins, and imperiled waters /
This book chronicles how America's most glorious and historically significant harbor was rescued from decades of pollution and neglect by a community of caring citizens who were linked to an environmentally committed judge and his special harbor master. This dynamic public-private team shaped n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: troubled waters
- The harbor in the national political campaign: George H.W. Bush's landing
- Under the judicial lens: the Quincy case is launched
- Coping complexities: signing on as a special master
- The setting: the plants, pipes, and pumps of Boston Harbor
- The cast of characters: officials and fish
- Turning the tide: creating a novel trial process
- A dying harbor? The battle of the experts
- Report of the special master: findings of fact
- Report of the special master: remedies and recommendations
- The judge lays down the law: the procedural order for the rehabilitation of the harbor
- Awash with ideas: a new authority for governing the harbor
- Safe harbor: paying for the vision
- Parting the waters: the showdown between court and legislature
- The commons restored: courts and social change
- The call of the bugler: tools and tactics of effective judicial intervention
- Conclusion: the high tide of judicial action
- Postscript: Boston Harbor today.