Corporate Power and the Environment

The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy

By (author) George A. Gonzalez

Publication date:

16 May 2001

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x163mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742510845

Environmental policy is broadly viewed as an oasis of democracy, unspoiled by crass capitalism and undominated by corporate interests. This book counters that view. The focus of Corporate Power and the Environment focuses on how U.S. economic elites—corporate decisionmakers and other individuals of substantial wealth—shape the content and implementation of U.S. environmental policy to their economic and political benefit. The author uses the management of the national forests and national parks, as well as wilderness preservation policies and federal clean air policies, as case studies to show corporate power in action in even the 'purest' of policy arenas.
Refreshing in its unusual criticism of main stream pluralist assumptions about environmental politics and policy.