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Updated in its 6th edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox provides an introduction to the policy-making process in the United States with regard to air, water, land use, agriculture, energy, and waste disposal, while introducing readers to both global and international environmental issues and institutions. The text explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not, and illustrates that even when the best short- and long-term solutions to environmental problems are identified, the task of implementing these solutions is often left undone or is completed too late. Readers are presented with a comprehensive history of the environmental movement paired with the most up-to-date account of environmental policy available today.
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Synopsis
Updated in its 6th edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox provides an introduction to the policy-making process in the United States with regard to air, water, land use, agriculture, energy, and waste disposal, while introducing readers to both global and international environmental issues and institutions. The text explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not, and illustrates that even when the best short- and long-term solutions to environmental problems are identified, the task of implementing these solutions is often left undone or is completed too late. Readers are presented with a comprehensive history of the environmental movement paired with the most up-to-date account of environmental policy available today.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
About the Author
Part One: The policy-making process
1 Ecosystem Interdependence
The Steady State
Common Pool Resources
Summary
Notes
2 Changing Cultural and Social Beliefs: From Conservation to Environmentalism
Dominant Social Paradigm
Attempts to Changing the DSP
History of the Environmental Movement
Social Movements
Interest Groups
Public Opinion and the Environment
Summary
Notes
3 The Regulatory Environment
The Regulatory Context
Fundamentals of Environmental Law
Summary
Notes
4 The Political and Institutional Setting
The Institutional Setting
Institutional Biases
The Political Setting
Summary
Notes
PART Two: Environmental Policy
5 Air
Sources
Air Pollution: Law, Regulations, and Enforcement
Summary
Notes
6 Water
Sources
Water Law and Regulation
Summary
Notes
7 Energy
History of Energy
Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Renewable Energy 166
Conservation and Energy Efficiency: Some Suggestions for the Future
An Ecological Conclusion
Summary
Notes
8 Toxic and Hazardous Waste
Solid Waste
Hazardous Wastes
Summary
Notes
9 Land Management Issues
Local Land-Use Planning
Types of Land-Use Planning
Federal Land Management
Multiple-Use
Wilderness
Summary
Notes
10 International Environmental Issues
Population and Food Production
Desertification and Food Production
Global Pollution
Less Developed Countries: North Vs. South
Summary
Notes
11 International Environmental Management
International Environmentalism
Alternative Political Systems
International Environmental Management
Economic Globalization and the Second Industrial Revolution
International Regulatory Efforts
Trends in the International Regulatory Process
Summary
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix A
How We Study Public Policy–Theoretical Approaches
Appendix B
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended
Index