The environmental case : translating values into policy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Layzer, Judith A. (Author), Rinfret, Sara R. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : Sage ; CQ Press, [2024]
Edition:Sixth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A policymaking framework : defining problems and portraying solutions in U.S. environmental politics
  • 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 : a forgotten success story : acid rain and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
  • 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
  • Lessons from the fish : crisis and recovery in New England
  • Climate change : the crisis of our time
  • 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 management in Portland, Oregon
  • The Salton Sea : a desert mirage
  • Conclusions: Politics, values, and environmental policy change.