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Book SynopsisSzasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from pollution removal towards the logic of prevention. He describes how lawmakers sought to appease popular discontent by reinforcing toxic waste laws, and suggests this force may be a further impulse for progressive politics.
Table of ContentsEnvironmental crisis and the search for a politics that works. Part 1: policy; icon; social movement - hazardous waste in three arenas of political action; routine regulatory failure - the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976; "toxic waste" as icon - a new mass issue is born; the toxics movement - from "NIMBY-ism" to radical environmental populism. Part 2: reactions - could opposition be neutralized?; discourses and policies of disempowerment; hazardous waste regulation progresses against the conservative tide. Part 3: results of hazardous waste legislation - summing up the policy failures and successes; broader political implications?; environmental populism and the reconstitution of progressive politics.
