Reimagining NEPA: choices for environmentalists

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985 · Harv. Environ. Law Rev.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5529120

Pollack, S

Five years after the end of the environmental decade the movement has split into those whose strategy is to enhance opportunities for grassroots organizing and those whose strategy is to increase internal expertise. The positions of the technocratic and grassroots proponents over the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) show that one sees NEPA as a way to empower a new class of professionals, while the other uses NEPA to elevate the importance of citizen's participation in decision making. A third, or deep ecology, perspective criticizes both approaches and treats environmental degradation as a symptom of deeper societal problems, solvable only by massive changes in current values and institutions.

• OSTI ID: 5529120
• Journal Information: Harv. Environ. Law Rev.; (United States), Vol. 9:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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