Fight for the Bay

Howard R. Ernst, professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is the author of Chesapeake Bay Blues.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Chapter 1: Debunking the Light Green ParadigmChapter 4 Environmental Conflict: A Clash of ValuesChapter 5 Dark Green Environmental ThoughtChapter 6 Light Green Environmental ThoughtChapter 7 Cornucopian ThoughtChapter 8 The Political Dead ZoneChapter 9 Chapter 2: The Polite Politics of Light Green EnvironmentalismChapter 10 Environmental Economics 101Chapter 11 The Long Struggle for Sensible Environmental ManagementChapter 12 Recent Developments in Regional ManagementChapter 13 A Model of Success or a Model of Deception?Chapter 14 The Sticky Sweet Stuff of Light Green Environmental PromisesChapter 15 Chapter 3: Environmental Journalists, Our Endangered Filter FeedersChapter 16 Why Environmental Journalism MattersChapter 17 The State of Journalism in AmericaChapter 18 The State of Environmental Journalism in AmericaChapter 19 Understanding the Environmental BeatChapter 20 Goals of the Environmental ReporterChapter 21 Elements of Career Success for Environmental JournalistsChapter 22 How Editors View Their ReadersChapter 23 Chapter 4: Environmental Advocacy in the Dead ZoneChapter 24 In Defense of Sacred PlacesChapter 25 The Belly of the BeastChapter 26 The Outside GameChapter 27 Media MasterChapter 28 The Last WordChapter 29 NotesChapter 30 ReferencesChapter 31 IndexChapter 32 About the Authors

Ernst is devoted to elucidating both obvious and subtle aspects of the catastrophic transformation of the Chesapeake Bay from a vast, fecund 'ecological treasure' into a dead zone, first in Chesapeake Bay Blues (2003), and now in this eye-opening inquiry into the failure to restore the Bay, in spite of the spawning of 600-plus environmental groups and the allocation of huge amounts of money. . . . Ernst’s incisive and thought-provoking study pinpoints the sticking points holding up environmental progress and offers a do’s-and-don’ts primer to effective action.