WATER PURITY A Study in Legal Control of Natural Resources
Published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1961
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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8vo, 212 pages, cloth. Uncommon "This is a study of legal control of the purity of water supply in Wisconsin, The monograph can stand on its merits as a contribution in modern United States legal history. . Murphy has studied his subject in a broad frame of reference [appealing] (1) to economists the book presents, in legal context,the working out of difficult issues of social cost accounting and the economics of natural resource conservatin; (2) to [those] concerned with resource management it offers a case study in the interplay of law, scientific and technical knowledge, popular attitudes, and the maneuver of interest groups; (3) to students of public helth and sanitation control it presents an unusually concrete and vivid history of the translation of biological and medical knowledge into workable regulation and public works programs; (4) to political scientists it furnishes histories of a type scarce in the literature, regarding (a) local government regulations . (b) state administrative action . (c) the impact of federal grants programs .; and, finally (5) to students of the history of ideas . - Foreword." With a Table of Cases, bibliography, notes, and index.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- WATER PURITY A Study in Legal Control of Natural Resources
- Author
- MURPHY, Earl Finbar
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- conservation, law, natural resources, water, water pollution
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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