Chesapeake Bay Blues, Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save The Bay By Howard R. Ernst, Ph.D.

Science, Politics, and the Struggle to
Save The Bay By Howard R. Ernst, Ph.D.

"Chesapeake Bay Blues cuts through the rhetorical muck, which, like the algae blooms in the bay, tends to shut out the light."
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Howard Ernst, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of political science at the US Naval Academy.
ernst@usna.edu
United States Naval Academy
Political Science Department
589 McNair Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5030
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Imagine … by Howard Ernst (for Bay Weekly)
Imagine that we lived a long, long time: 200 years, or 500 years or, better yet, 1,000 years. But there’s a catch. We live all those years on the land that we currently occupy.
Would we treat nature differently? ...

The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program. Yet the Bay and the living systems it supports remain in dismally poor condition, with fisheries in decline and drinking water in danger. This book addresses the Chesapeake Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once. Author Howard Ernst shows that the forces driving environmental degradation are sown deeply into the political soul of America, posing menacing challenges to those fighting to restore large ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay. The book serves as a political roadmap for the future, suggesting how a different course of policy action is needed to "Save the Bay."

Special Features:

--Successfully blends political and environmental issues in an accessible style.

--Provides a clear and critical analysis of the nation's premier restoration effort and how it has come up short.

--Offers a series of political reforms that provide a clear road map for correcting many of the political problems plaguing the Bay.

--Tables, figures, and case studies illustrate the science and politics of an important environmental policy problem.

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"Buy Ernst’s book, read it and begin watching to see who’s got ideas and who’s doing a choke hold on action. If you think he’s right, get political." - Sara Ebenreck and Sandra Martin BayWeekly

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"I hope Chesapeake Bay Blues is widely read and debated, because business as usual--even tweaked a bit--isn't going to cut it for restoring the Chesapeake." -Tom Horton columnist for The Baltimore Sun and author of Bay Country

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