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The Environmental Case
Translating Values Into Policy
Fifth Edition
- Judith A. Layzer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Sara R. Rinfret - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
July 2019 | 664 pages | CQ Press
Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy. The Environmental Case captures the real-world complexity of creating environmental policy, and this much-anticipated Fifth Edition contains fifteen carefully constructed cases. Through her analysis, Sara Rinfret continues the work of Judith Layzer and explores the background, players, contributing factors, and outcomes of each case, and gives readers insight into some of the most interesting and controversial issues in U.S. environmental policymaking.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
CHAPTER 1 • A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics
PART I • REGULATING POLLUTERS
CHAPTER 2 • The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts
CHAPTER 3 • Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear
CHAPTER 4 • Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay
CHAPTER 5 • Market-Based Solutions: Acid Rain and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
PART II • HISTORY, CHANGING VALUES, AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 6 • Oil Versus Wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
CHAPTER 7 • Federal Grazing Policy: Some Things Never Change
CHAPTER 8 • Jobs Versus the Environment: Saving the Northern Spotted Owl
CHAPTER 9 • Playground or Paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park
CHAPTER 10 • Crisis and Recovery in the New England Fisheries
CHAPTER 11 • The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The High Cost of Offshore Oil
PART III • NEW ISSUES, NEW POLITICS
CHAPTER 12 • Climate Change: The Crisis of Our Time
CHAPTER 13 • Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When?
CHAPTER 14 • Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development
CHAPTER 15 • Making Trade-Offs: Urban Sprawl and the Evolving System of Growth Management in Portland, Oregon
CHAPTER 16 • Post-Katrina: Lessons From a Disaster
CHAPTER 17 • Conclusions: Politics, Values, and Environmental Policy Change
Index
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1: A Policymaking Framework
Chapter 2: The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution