Pressing environmental challenges are frequently surrounded with stakeholders on all sides of the issues. Opinions expressed by government agencies, the private sector, special interests, nonprofit communities, and the media, among others can quickly cloud the dialogue, leaving one to wonder how policy decisions actually come about. In Environmental Policy Analysis and Practice, Michael R. Greenberg cuts through the complicated layers of bureaucracy, science, and the public interest to show how all policy considerations can be broken down according to six specific factors: 1) the reaction of elected government officials, 2) the reactions of the public and special interests, 3) knowledge developed by scientists and engineers, 4) economics, 5) ethical imperatives, and 6) time pressure to make a decision. The book is organized into two parts, with the first part defining and illustrating each one of these criteria. Greenberg draws on examples such as nuclear power, pesticides, brownfield redevelopment, gasoline additives, and environmental cancer, but focuses on how these subjects can be analyzed rather than exclusively on the issues themselves. Part two goes on to describe a set of over twenty tools that are used widely in policy analysis, including risk assessment, environmental impact analysis, public opinion surveys, cost-benefit analysis, and others. These tools are described and then illustrated with examples from part one. Weaving together an impressive combination of practical advice and engaging first person accounts from government officials, administrators, and leaders in the fields of public health and medicine, this clearly written volume is poised to become a leading text in environmental policy.
Practitioners of policy analysis will better understand the tools of their trade, and the broader contexts in which analysis contributes.
Suggested readings and study questions follow each chapter. This book is designed for use in upper-level college courses in natural resource and environmental economics and graduate courses in resource management.
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This groundbreaking volume presents the first ever detailed examination of EPI at the national policy level, focusing on the key sectors of energy and agriculture within Sweden, a country that is widely recognized as a front runner in ...
Interpreting it also requires those skills. We hope that this book will increase the abilities, both of analysts and of decision-makers, to understand and interpret the impacts of environmental policies.
City of Bellingham, 109 Wn. App. 6, 31 P.3d 703 (2001); Gastineau v. City of Bothell, 1998 Wash. App. LEXIS 1785 (Wash. Ct. App. Dec. 28, 1998) (unpublished opinion). 32 WAC 197-11-158. 33 Moss v. City of Bellingham, above note 31; ...
This book argues in favor of using cost-benefit analysis globally and examines the positive impact it can have in developing countries using relevant case studies.
This volume probes practical dilemmas and competing re- search perspectives in environmental policy analysis.
The book casts much light on the links between political, ethical, and literary discourses, a relationship equally relevant to specific processes like canonical revisions, and entire fields such as gender studies or multiculturalism.
ENHANCING THE INTERPLAY OF THEORY AND PRACTICE In previous sections , we discussed the various theories of public policy analysis as well as the methods that can enhance the effectiveness of environmental policy studies .