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The Environmental Policy Paradox

ISBN: 9780130993083 | 0130993085
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, and Public Policy; and as a supplement for courses in American Government and Public Administration. This text provides an introduction to the policy making process in the United States with regard to air, water, land use, agriculture, energy, waste disposal, and other areas. It 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 ... MORE
Prefacexi
Abbreviationsxv
About the Authorxix
PART ONE: THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS
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Ecosystem Interdependence
1(6)
The Steady State
4(1)
Common Pool Resources
4(1)
Summary
5(1)
Notes
5(2)
Changing Cultural and Social Beliefs: From Conservation to Environmentalism
7(25)
Dominant Social Paradigm
7(8)
Economics and Growth
8(3)
Science and Technology: Our Views of Nature
11(2)
The Role of Religion
13(2)
History of the Environmental Movement
15(4)
Dominance
15(1)
Early Awakening
15(1)
Early Conservationist
15(1)
Later Conservationist
15(2)
The Reawakening
17(1)
Complacency
17(1)
The Little Reagan Revolution
18(1)
Post-Reagan Resurgence
18(1)
Interest Groups
19(1)
Public Opinion and the Environment
20(8)
Survivalism
24(1)
Prometheans
24(1)
Administrative Rationalism
25(1)
Democratic Pragmatism
25(1)
Economic Rationalism
25(1)
Sustainable Development
26(1)
Ecological Modernization
26(1)
Green Romanticism
27(1)
Green Rationalism
27(1)
Summary
28(1)
Notes
28(4)
The Regulatory Environment
32(13)
The Regulatory Context
32(9)
Science and Risk Analysis
33(4)
The Role of Government
37(2)
Approaches to Regulation
39(2)
Fundamentals of Environmental Law
41(2)
Summary
43(1)
Notes
44(1)
The Political and Institutional Setting
45(37)
The Institutional Setting
45(6)
Formal Institutions
45(3)
Informal Institutions
48(3)
Institutional Biases
51(5)
Incrementalism
51(1)
Decentralization
52(1)
Short-Term Bias
52(1)
Ideological Bias
53(1)
Private Nature of Public Policy Making
54(1)
Crisis and Reforms
54(2)
The Political Setting
56(21)
Pluralism
56(4)
The Regulators
60(17)
Summary
77(1)
Notes
78(4)
PART TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Air Pollution
82(40)
Sources
82(8)
Health Effects
85(2)
Motor Vehicles
87(3)
Air Pollution: Law, Regulations, and Enforcement
90(24)
Regulatory Innovations
93(3)
Regulatory Issues
96(2)
Toxic Air Pollution
98(3)
Acid Rain
101(4)
Stratospheric Ozone
105(4)
The Greenhouse Effect
109(5)
Summary
114(1)
Notes
115(7)
Water
122(20)
Sources
123(4)
Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
124(1)
Groundwater Pollution
125(1)
Health Effects of Water Pollution
126(1)
Water Law and Regulation
127(12)
Clean Water Act
128(3)
Safe Drinking Water Act
131(2)
Criticisms of Water Pollution Policy
133(1)
The Paradox in Water Pollution Policy
134(5)
Summary
139(1)
Notes
139(3)
Energy
142(40)
History of Energy
144(11)
Industrial Revolution
144(1)
Oil and War
144(1)
Role of Personal Consumption
145(1)
OPEC and the Oil Crises
146(2)
Development of Nuclear Power
148(2)
Development of a National Energy Policy
150(5)
Nonrenewable Energy Sources
155(4)
Coal
155(1)
Oil
156(1)
Natural Gas
157(1)
Geothermal Energy
158(1)
Nuclear Power
158(1)
Renewable Energy
159(7)
Hydropower
160(2)
Solar Power
162(1)
Wind Power
163(1)
Biomass
164(2)
Conservation and Energy Efficiency: Some Suggestions for the Future
166(4)
Conservation in Homes and Buildings
166(2)
Conservation in Transportation
168(1)
Conservation in Industry
169(1)
Obstacles to Conservation
170(1)
An Ecological Conclusion
170(1)
Summary
171(1)
Notes
171(11)
Toxic and Hazardous Materials and Waste Management
182(31)
Solid Waste
183(7)
What Is Solid Waste?
183(1)
Scope of the Problem
183(2)
Disposal Methods
185(1)
Regulations
186(1)
Solutions
186(4)
Hazardous Wastes
190(16)
Nature of the Problem
190(2)
Disposal Methods
192(4)
Federal Regulations
196(3)
Regulatory Problems
199(4)
Hazardous Waste Case Study: GE, EPA, PCBs, and the Hudson River
203(1)
The Policy Paradox in Hazardous Waste Management
204(2)
Summary
206(1)
Notes
207(6)
Land Management Issues
213(26)
Local Land Use Planning
213(6)
Soil Erosion
217(1)
Farmland Conversion
218(1)
Desertification
219(1)
Federal Land Management
219(3)
Multiple Use
220(1)
Recreation
220(1)
Fee Demonstration Project
221(1)
Commercial Recreation Permits and Concessions
221(1)
Fire Management
222(1)
Wilderness
222(10)
History
222(2)
Proposed Wilderness and Wilderness Study Areas
224(2)
National Park Service Management
226(1)
Endangered Species
227(4)
Ecosystem Management
231(1)
Summary
232(1)
Notes
233(6)
International Environmental Issues
239(22)
Population and Food Production
240(5)
Desertification and Food Production
245(1)
Global Pollution
246(6)
The Ozone Layer
246(2)
The Greenhouse
248(2)
Deforestation
250(1)
Ocean Pollution
251(1)
Less Developed Countries: North vs. South
252(4)
International Conflict
253(3)
Summary
256(1)
Notes
256(5)
International Environmental Management
261(21)
Alternative Political Systems
263(5)
Market-Based Economies
263(1)
Collective Ownership Systems
264(1)
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
264(2)
China
266(2)
International Environmental Management
268(4)
Common Pool Resources
268(1)
Creation of an IGO
269(3)
Economic Globalization and the Second Industrial Revolution
272(1)
International Regulatory Efforts
273(4)
Controlling Oceanic Pollution
273(1)
Atmospheric Conventions
274(2)
Hazardous Waste Control at the International Level
276(1)
Protection of Endangered and Threatened Species
276(1)
Trends in the International Regulatory Process
277(1)
Summary
278(1)
Notes
278(4)
Conclusion282(2)
Notes284(2)
Index286

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