Detente with Nature: The Politics of Energy Extraction and Environmental Protection, 1969-1980
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Matthew K. Kahn
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Sherry, Michael
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Northwestern University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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326
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Allen, Michael J.; Woodhouse, Keith
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-78603-2
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
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Northwestern University
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation examines how and why, in the midst of the acute energy shortages of the 1970s, policymakers favored programs that both permitted and restricted controversial fossil fuel development on public lands. It argues that environmental advocates defused the pro-development urges of panicked lawmakers to preserve significant environmental gains while simultaneously accepting energy development alongside those new environmental regulations. Focusing on key debates over offshore drilling, pipeline construction, and mining regulation, as well as policymakers' attempts to reconcile energy independence and environmental protection, 'Détente with Nature' tells a story of unlikely caution and compromise in the face of crisis. During the decade, policymakers developed a new awareness of competing interests, acknowledging the contradictory nature of environmental protection and energy production while also adopting policies that attempted to solve both problems. This effort - to solve energy and environmental needs while simultaneously conceding their competing nature - forged a tenuous legal and rhetorical balance between protection and production that dominated public lands discussion in the 1970s.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American history; Environmental Studies; Energy
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Subject Term
Social sciences;Applied sciences;Health and environmental sciences;Crisis;Detente;Energy;Environmentalism;Policy;Resources