Chesapeake Bay Blues

Howard R. Ernst is assistant professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy.

• Part 1 I The Chesapeake Bay and Environmental PoliticsChapter 2 The Chesapeake Bay: Management of North America's Largest Estuary; Managing the Chesapeake Bay; The State of the Bay: A Limited Inventory of Living Resources; ConclusionChapter 3 The Chesapeake Bay as a Political Dilemma: Understanding the Political Barriers to Environmental Policy; "It's the Economy, Stupid": How Economic Primacy Influences Environmental Politics; Divided Government and the Race to the Bottom: How America's FragmPart 4 II Nutrient Management and Bay PoliticsChapter 5 Swimming against the Tide: Nutrient Reduction Efforts in the Bay Watershed; The Difficulty of Achieving Nutrient Reductions; The Scorecard: Measuring Nutrient; Reduction "Success"; ConclusionChapter 6 The Political Fight of Nutrient Management Policy: The Case of Agricultural Regulation; Agricultural Nutrient Loading; Political Background: The Fight for Enforceable Agricultural Regulations in Maryland and Pennsylvania; Environmental Theory: Toward a DePart 7 III The Blue Crab and Bay PoliticsChapter 8 All You Can Eat? The Difficult Task of Protecting the Blue Crab; The Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus); The Decline of the Blue Crab; Factors Complicating Blue Crab Management for the Chesapeake Bay; The Struggle for a Sensible Management Strategy; CoChapter 9 Battling Over the Blue Crab: The Politics of Crab Management in Virginia and Maryland; Blue Crab Management in Virginia; Blue Crab Management in Maryland; Environmental Theory: Toward a Deeper understanding of Blue Crab Management; Economic Primacy and BlPart 10 IV Learning from the PastChapter 11 Toward a Brighter Future for the Chesapeake Bay; Ten Measures to Improve Politics for the Bay; ConcludsionChapter 12 Appendix: Nutrient Management and the Bay

Chesapeake Bay Blues cuts through the rhetorical muck, which, like the algae that blooms in the bay, tends to shut out the light.