The environmental case: translating values into policy
From case studies on pollution to resource management to common problems, students explore U.S. environmental policy issues through the eyes of the main players, getting a clear sense of what is at stake and how these conflicts play out at the local, state, federal, even international levels.
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- Full title :The environmental case : translating values into policy / Judith A. Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Summary
From case studies on pollution to resource management to common problems, students explore U.S. environmental policy issues through the eyes of the main players, getting a clear sense of what is at stake and how these conflicts play out at the local, state, federal, even international levels.
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- Publication Date:©2016
- Edition:Fourth edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE
- Place of Publication:Thousand Oaks, California
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
Notes
Previous edition: Washington, DC : CQ, 2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 608 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781452239897, 1452239894
- oclc:ocn932260448
- LC Classification:GE180
- Dewey Decimal:363.7/0973
Table of Contents
Preface -- A policymaking framework : defining problems and portraying solutions in U.S. environmental politics -- Part 1. Regulating polluters. The nation tackles air and water pollution : the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts ; Love Canal : hazardous waste and the politics of fear ; Ecosystem-based management in the Chesapeake Bay ; Market-based solutions : acid rain and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 -- Part 2. History, changing values, and natural resource management. Oil versus wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ; Federal grazing policy : some things never change ; Jobs versus the environment : saving the northern spotted owl ; Playground or paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park ; Crisis and recovery in the New England fisheries ; The Deepwater Horizon disaster : the high cost of offshore oil -- Part 3. New issues, new politics. Climate change : the challenges of international environmental policymaking ; Cape wind : if not here, where? If not now, when? ; Fracking wars : local and state responses to unconventional shale gas development ; Making trade-offs : urban sprawl and the evolving system of growth m…
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