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Mastering Boston Harbor : Courts, Dolphins, and Imperiled Waters / Charles Monroe Haar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674038097
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.744/7046343 22
LOC classification:
  • KF228.Q56
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Map of Boston Harbor -- Introduction: Troubled Waters -- 1. The Harbor in the National Political Campaign: George H.W. Bush’s Landing -- 2. Under the Judicial Lens: The Quincy Case Is Launched -- 3. Coping with Complexities: Signing On as Special Master -- 4. The Setting: The Plants, Pipes, and Pumps of Boston Harbor -- 5. The Cast of Characters: Officials and Fish -- 6. Turning the Tide: Creating a Novel Trial Process -- 7. A Dying Harbor? The Battle of the Experts -- 8. Report of the Special Master: Findings of Fact -- 9. Report of the Special Master: Remedies and Recommendations -- 10. The Judge Lays Down the Law: The Procedural Order for the Rehabilitation of the Harbor -- 11. Awash with Ideas: A New Authority for Governing the Harbor -- 12. Safe Harbor: Paying for the Vision -- 13. Parting of theWaters: The Showdown between Court and Legislature -- 14. The Commons Restored: Courts and Social Change -- 15. The Call of the Bugler: Tools and Tactics of Effective Judicial Intervention -- Conclusion: The High Tide of Judicial Action -- Postscript: Boston Harbor Today -- Timeline of the Quincy Case -- Summary of Recommendations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: This book chronicles how America's most glorious and historically significant harbor was rescued from decades of pollution and neglect by a community of caring citizens who were linked to an environmentally committed judge and his special harbor master. This dynamic public-private team shaped novel legal and political procedures for governing and restoring the harbor.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Map of Boston Harbor -- Introduction: Troubled Waters -- 1. The Harbor in the National Political Campaign: George H.W. Bush’s Landing -- 2. Under the Judicial Lens: The Quincy Case Is Launched -- 3. Coping with Complexities: Signing On as Special Master -- 4. The Setting: The Plants, Pipes, and Pumps of Boston Harbor -- 5. The Cast of Characters: Officials and Fish -- 6. Turning the Tide: Creating a Novel Trial Process -- 7. A Dying Harbor? The Battle of the Experts -- 8. Report of the Special Master: Findings of Fact -- 9. Report of the Special Master: Remedies and Recommendations -- 10. The Judge Lays Down the Law: The Procedural Order for the Rehabilitation of the Harbor -- 11. Awash with Ideas: A New Authority for Governing the Harbor -- 12. Safe Harbor: Paying for the Vision -- 13. Parting of theWaters: The Showdown between Court and Legislature -- 14. The Commons Restored: Courts and Social Change -- 15. The Call of the Bugler: Tools and Tactics of Effective Judicial Intervention -- Conclusion: The High Tide of Judicial Action -- Postscript: Boston Harbor Today -- Timeline of the Quincy Case -- Summary of Recommendations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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This book chronicles how America's most glorious and historically significant harbor was rescued from decades of pollution and neglect by a community of caring citizens who were linked to an environmentally committed judge and his special harbor master. This dynamic public-private team shaped novel legal and political procedures for governing and restoring the harbor.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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