Chesapeake Bay Blues

Chapter 1 I The Chesapeake Bay and Environmental Politics
Chapter 2 The Chesapeake Bay: Management of North America's Largest Estuary; Managing the Chesapeake Bay; The State of the Bay: A Limited Inventory of Living Resources; Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Chesapeake Bay as a Political Dilemma: Understanding the Political Barriers to Environmental Policy; It's the Economy, Stupid: How Economic Primacy Influences Environmental Politics; Divided Government and the Race to the Bottom: How America's Fragm
Chapter 4 II Nutrient Management and Bay Politics
Chapter 5 Swimming against the Tide: Nutrient Reduction Efforts in the Bay Watershed; The Difficulty of Achieving Nutrient Reductions; The Scorecard: Measuring Nutrient; Reduction Success; Conclusion
Chapter 6 The Political Fight of Nutrient Management Policy: The Case of Agricultural Regulation; Agricultural Nutrient Loading; Political Background: The Fight for Enforceable Agricultural Regulations in Maryland and Pennsylvania; Environmental Theory: Toward a De
Chapter 7 III The Blue Crab and Bay Politics
Chapter 8 All You Can Eat? The Difficult Task of Protecting the Blue Crab; The Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus); The Decline of the Blue Crab; Factors Complicating Blue Crab Management for the Chesapeake Bay; The Struggle for a Sensible Management Strategy; Co
Chapter 9 Battling Over the Blue Crab: The Politics of Crab Management in Virginia and Maryland; Blue Crab Management in Virginia; Blue Crab Management in Maryland; Environmental Theory: Toward a Deeper understanding of Blue Crab Management; Economic Primacy and Bl
Chapter 10 IV Learning from the Past
Chapter 11 Toward a Brighter Future for the Chesapeake Bay; Ten Measures to Improve Politics for the Bay; Concludsion
Chapter 12 Appendix: Nutrient Management and the Bay

Chesapeake Bay Blues should motivate a wake-up call for all Bay lovers. A reading must for all concerned.....