Sustaining the Chesapeake – Environmentalism, Public Policy, and Progress, 1960…

Sustaining the ChesapeakeEnvironmentalism, Public Policy, and Progress, 1960-2010\nAuthor(s): Andrew S. Ramey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813952659, 978-0813952659\nSynopsis\nThe decades-long effort to protect one of the nations most important waterways\n\n The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and the site of some of the most significant moments in the nations history. This book provides for the first time a comprehensive story of the effort to save and protect its waters and living resources for future generations. Andrew Ramey describes the enormous taskengaging the states in the Bays watershed and the federal government since 1983to realize one of the largest, most complex, and most expensive ecosystem restoration projects ever undertaken. He also unfolds a dramatic political narrative, tracing the momentous changes in American environmental politics from th.