The environmental case
Subtitle: translating values into policy
By: Judith A. Layzer
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9781604266122
Subjects: Case studies; Environmental policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A policymaking framework: defining problems and portraying solutions in U.S. environmental politics; title: The nation tackles pollution: the environmental protection agency and the clean air and clean water acts; title: Love Canal: hazardous waste and the politics of fear; title: Community activism and environmental justice: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; title: Oil versus wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; title: Federal grazing policy: some things never change; title: Jobs versus the environment: saving the northern spotted owl; title: Playground or paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park; title: Crisis and recovery in the New England fisheries; title: Climate change: the challenges of international environmental policymaking; title: Cape Wind: if not here, where? If not now, when?; title: Trade versus the environment: dolphins, turtles, and global economic expansion; title: Backlash: wise use, property rights, and antienvironmental activitism in the 1990s; title: Market-based solutions: acid rain and the clean air act amendments of 1990; title: Ecosystem-based management in the Chesapeake Bay; title: Making tradeoffs: urban sprawl and the evolving system of growth management in Portland, Oregon; title: Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans: disaster, restoration, and resilience; title: Conclusions: politics, values, and environmental policy change.