Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory)

ISBN 10: 0791433307 / ISBN 13: 9780791433300

Editore: State University of New York Press, 1997

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Riassunto:

Although considerable progress has been made in improving environmental quality in parts of the United States, many localities have yet to meet federal air and water quality standards and many hazardous-waste sites remain to be cleaned up. At the international level, the U.S. and other countries continue to face critical environmental problems. As a contribution to the literature on public policy and to help educate students about natural resource issues, this book identifies the likely "hot spots" of environmental policy and presents alternative and often opposing points of view on the major controversies that are likely to be with us well into the next century. Among the topics covered are comparative risk assessment; market incentives in environmental regulation; environmental justice; public versus private management of public lands; international trade and sustainable development; and the relationship between national security and environmental protection.

Informazioni sull?autore: Sheldon Kamieniecki is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of Environmental Politics in the International Arena and coeditor of Controversies in Environmental Policy, both published by SUNY Press. George A. Gonzalez is a lecturer at San Jose State University. Robert O. Vos is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

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Titolo: Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: ...
Casa editrice: State University of New York Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good