Mastering Boston Harbor : courts, dolphins, and imperiled waters / Charles M. Haar.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 380 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Massachusetts Water Resources Authority -- History
- Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission
- Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
- Quincy (Mass.) -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Marine pollution -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts -- Boston Harbor
- LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- LAW / Environmental
- Marine pollution -- Law and legislation
- Massachusetts -- Boston Harbor
- Massachusetts -- Quincy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
Introduction: troubled waters -- The harbor in the national political campaign: George H.W. Bush's landing -- Under the judicial lens: the Quincy case is launched -- Coping complexities: signing on as a special master -- The setting: the plants, pipes, and pumps of Boston Harbor -- The cast of characters: officials and fish -- Turning the tide: creating a novel trial process -- A dying harbor? The battle of the experts -- Report of the special master: findings of fact -- Report of the special master: remedies and recommendations -- The judge lays down the law: the procedural order for the rehabilitation of the harbor -- Awash with ideas: a new authority for governing the harbor -- Safe harbor: paying for the vision -- Parting the waters: the showdown between court and legislature -- The commons restored: courts and social change -- The call of the bugler: tools and tactics of effective judicial intervention -- Conclusion: the high tide of judicial action -- Postscript: Boston Harbor today.
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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.
In English.
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