This paper draws together the five key elements accounting for the progress in reducing air pollution in the Los Angeles region under the Federal and State Clean Air Acts over the course of four decades. These include changes in the nature and operations of the region’s industrial sectors;...

Tracing the path that Los Angles has followed in significantly curbing its air pollution under the Federal and State Clean Air Acts over the course of four decades, this chapter illuminates both the struggle this has entailed and the importance of the three epochs developed in Chapter 1 of the...

Defined as the process of establishing, steering, facilitating, operating, and monitoring cross-sectoral organizational arrangements to address public policy problems, collaborative governance has emerged as an institutional form valued by both professional and research audiences across a...

As the basis for exploring the sustainability movement in a variety of environmental arenas and places across the United States, Mazmanian and Kraft develop in this opening chapter of their book a framework that locates sustainability - historically and conceptually - as the third epoch in the...

This paper brings together three major themes in laying out a roadmap for the economic vitality of the United States in the global arena of the 21st century. First, megaregions, in the US and around the world are become the crucibles of economic growth and development as they compete across, if...