Redefining efficiency pollution concerns regulatory mechanisms and technological change in the U S petroleum industry 1st Edition by Hugh Gorman ISBN 1884836755 978-1884836756

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ISBN 10: 1884836755

ISBN 13:  978-1884836756

Author:  Hugh S. Gorman

Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency 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. Redefining Efficiency 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.

Table of contents: 

PART I. EARLY POLLUTION CONCERNS AND THE DIRECTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
1. Pollution Concerns Articulated
2. Concerns in the Oil Fields
3. Keeping Oil in the Pipelines
4. Refineries, Pollution Concerns, and Technological Change
5. What to Do with Tankers?
PART II. FIGHTING POLLUTION UNDER
AN EFFICIENCY ETHIC
6. Validating a Guiding Ethic
7. Success and Failure in the Oil Fields
8. Eliminating Corrosion and Monitoring Flows 9. Creating a Pollution Control Manual 10. The Ocean Ignored As Tankers Grow

PART III. REGULATING INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY TO
MAINTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
11. Crude Awakening
12. Redefining Efficiency
13. Environmental Objectives and the Evolution of Tankers
14. Closing the Loop

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