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Environmental politics and policy / Walter A. Rosenbaum.

Rosenbaum, Walter A. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780872894402 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0872894401 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 7th ed.
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2008.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Environmental policy > United States.

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Castlegar Campus Library GE 180 R66 2008 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
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Tables, Figures, and Boxes ix
Preface xi
1. After Earth Day: American Environmentalism in Transformation
1
A Texas Bet with Global Stakes
2
From Greenhouse to White House to State House
4
The Environmental Legacy
5
The Political Legacy: From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
7
Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future
10
Plan for the Book
21
Conclusion
24
Suggested Readings
25
Notes
25
2. Making Policy: The Process
27
The White House and the Greenhouse
28
The Policy Cycle
31
Constitutional Constraints
34
Incrementalism
36
Interest-Group Liberalism
37
Organized Environmentalism
40
Environmentalism and Its Critics
49
The Public and Environmentalism
52
The Special Place of Science in Policy Making
57
Conclusion
61
Suggested Readings
61
Notes
62
3. Making Policy: Institutions and Politics
65
The Presidency
68
Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance
74
The Bureaucracy: Power through Implementation
82
The Courts: The Role of Appraisal
97
The Political Environment of Environmental Policy Making
101
Conclusion
109
Suggested Readings
110
Notes
110
4. Common Policy Challenges: Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice
114
A Toxic Nightmare from Toyland?
115
Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science
118
What Risks Are Acceptable?
125
Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice
131
Conclusion
138
Suggested Readings
140
Notes
140
5. More Choice: The Battle over Regulatory Economics
143
The Benefit-Cost Debate
144
Regulation Strategies: Command and Control vs. the Marketplace
158
Conclusion
170
Suggested Readings
171
Notes
171
6. Command and Control in Action: Air and Water Pollution Regulation
174
The Political Anatomy of Command-and-Control Regulation
175
Regulating Air Quality
180
Regulating Water Quality
196
Conclusion
213
Suggested Readings
214
Notes
214
7. A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances
217
An Ambiguous Inheritance
220
The Rush to Regulate
228
Federal Law: Regulation from the Cradle to the Grave?
234
The Regulatory Thicket
240
Conclusion
248
Suggested Readings
249
Notes
249
8. Energy: Nuclear Dreams, Black Gold, and Vanishing Crude
253
Fossil Fuels and Public Apathy: A Perilous Combination
255
Nuclear Twilight or Second Dawn?
260
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Middle
271
Stubborn Hope: Breakthrough Technology, the White House, and the Greenhouse
273
The Cold War's Wasteland: Nuclear Weapons Facilities
274
Black Gold
279
Conclusion
284
Suggested Readings
286
Notes
286
9. 635 Million Acres of Politics: The Battle for Public Lands
289
ANWR: Public Land Politics at a Boil
290
A History of Contested Access
293
The Public Domain
294
Conflicts over Multiple Use
298
The Pluralistic Politics of the Public Lands
302
The Fate of the Forests
316
How Much Wilderness Is Enough?
325
Conclusion
326
Suggested Readings
327
Notes
327
10. The United States and Climate Diplomacy: The Emerging Politics of Global Environmentalism 330
Prologue: The Greenhouse Visits the White House
331
Transboundary Environmental Politics
333
Climate Diplomacy: Ozone Politics and the Montreal Protocols
346
Climate Diplomacy: Acid Precipitation
349
Climate Diplomacy: Climate Warming
353
The Emerging Politics of Sustainability
359
Conclusion
365
Suggested Readings
366
Notes
367
List of Abbreviations 371
Index 375

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