{"product_id":"redefining-efficiency-hugh-s-gorman-9781884836756","title":"Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Machanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S Petroleum Industry","description":"Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. \u003cem\u003eRedefining Efficiency\u003c\/em\u003e examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, this book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. \u003cem\u003eRedefining Efficiency\u003c\/em\u003e also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh S. Gorman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1884836755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781884836756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.22w x 1.23d","brand":"Hugh S. Gorman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48445829349631,"sku":"9781884836756","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_486b5688-f56b-4686-b18e-33973d8f04a5.jpg?v=1777220930","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/redefining-efficiency-hugh-s-gorman-9781884836756","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}