Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
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与内海作斗争：洪水、公共政策和萨克拉门托山谷
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1989
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D. Kennedy
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R. Kelley;D. Kennedy
在自然条件下，萨克拉门托山谷是一个洪水肆虐的地区，在雨季经常形成一个一百英里长的内海，到夏天的几个月里慢慢流失。今天，硅谷的生产力非常高，中心有一个伟大的首都，但这只是经过七十年的努力，设计和建造了数千英里复杂的堤坝和排水沟。罗伯特·凯利（Robert Kelley）将这场战斗置于包罗万象的国家政治文化中，这种文化通过共和党和民主党产生了关于如何最好地从洪水中恢复山谷的广泛分歧的想法。他利用政策分析领域的方法来研究美国政治文化和环境政策制定之间的关系。我们发现，关于萨克拉门托山谷的长期争论，无论是当时还是现在，都说明了美国的决策。
In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.