Authority and Responsibility for Environmental Administration
| Author | Lynton K. Caldwell |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271627038900113 |
| Published date | 01 May 1970 |
| Date | 01 May 1970 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Authority
and
Responsibility
for
Environmental
Administration
By
LYNTON
K.
CALDWELL
Lynton
K.
Caldwell,
Ph.D.,
Bloomington,
Indiana,
is
Professor
of
Political
Science,
Indiana
University.
He
has
also
taught
at
the
University
of
Chicago,
Syracuse
Uni-
versity,
the
University
of
Oklahoma,
and
the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley.
He
has
served
numerous
educational,
research
and
government
institutions,
including
the
Council
of
State
Governments,
the
Agency
for
International
Development,
and
the
United
Nations.
Dr.
Caldwell
is
a
Fellow
of
the
American
Association
for
the
Advance-
ment
of
Science,
a
member
of
the
Committee
on
Human
Ecology,
Ecological
Society
of
America,
and
a
member
of
the
National
Academy
of
Science
Study
Conference
on
En-
vironmental
Research.
He
is
the
author
of
numerous
books
and
articles,
and
his
most
recent
book
is
entitled
"Environment:
A
Challenge
for
Modern
Society."
ABSTRACT:
Authority
and
responsibility
for
ecologically
sound
policies
for
man-environment
relationships
are
confused
by
the
lag
between
the
changing
circumstances
of
man-on-
earth
and
his
assumptions,
behavior
patterns,
and
institutions.
In
the
United
States,
many
attitudes
which
were
hitherto
feasible
have
now
become
harmful.
Sanctification
of
political
forms
and
unrealistic
appraisals
of
the
tendencies
of
techno-
logical
society
severely
handicap
present
efforts
to
cope
with
environmental
problems.
If
society
is
to
deal
effectively
with
these
problems,
political
and
administrative
leadership
will
be
required
to
help
the
people
to
understand
the
necessity
for
certain
changes
in
their
expectations,
laws,
and
public
institu-
tions.
A
new,
ecologically
valid
politico-ethical
ideology
is
needed
to
legitimize
the
tasks
of
public
authority
and
responsi-
bility
that
an
effective
effort
to
cope
with
man’s
environmental
problems
would
require.
A
dual
crisis
of
attitudinal
and
institutional
inadequacy
must
be
surmounted
if
the
resulting
crisis
of
the
environment
is
to
be
overcome.
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