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Publisher
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 52 pages cm)
Language
English
Description
Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how various federal environmental directives do not suit diverse conditions at the local level, and compel local communities to spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to the public health. While policymakers have thrown far-reaching requirements at the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brookings Institution
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 126 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Annotation For decades, concerns have been raised about the consequences of relentless suburban expansion in the United States. But so far, government programs to control urban sprawl have had little effect in slowing it down, much less stopping it. In this book, Pietro S. Nivola raises important questions about the continued suburbanization of America: Is suburban growth just the result of market forces, or have government policies helped induce...
