1. Environment and governance
2. Historical context : European colonization and trade
3. Colonial precedents : environment as property
4. The constitutional framework
5. Land and transport : commercial development as environmental policy
6. Agencies and experts : the beginnings of public management
7. Public health and urban sanitation
8. Progressivism : conservation in the public interest
9. Administering he environment : subgovernments and stakeholders
10. Superpower and supermarket
11. The rise of modern environmentalism
12. Nationalizing pollution control
13. Reform or reaction? The politics of the pendulum
14. The unfinished business of national environmental policy
15. Environmental policy in a global economy
16. Managing the environment, managing ourselves.