Environmental policy studies: Beginnings and development
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a number of environmental crises—the discovery of dangerous concentrations of pesticides in the food chain, the damage to children’s brains caused by lead in gasoline, mercury poisoning from industry and gold mining, rising asthma cases due to heavy air pollution, catastrophic oil spills at sea, and others—prompted governments around the world to establish new environmental agencies and to introduce a range of environmental policies that sought to remedy such problems through imposing mandatory standards, requirements, and limits.
questions:
what are the main factors leading to the birth of environmental ideas in 1970s ?
trace back the key dates in the environmentalist policies worldwide
summarize the The Development of Environmental Policy article