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Informationen zum Autor Judith A. Layzer is assistant professor of environmental policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on U.S. environmental politics, particularly on the role of science and the use of ecosystem management and other collaborative approaches to environmental policy. Klappentext Through its 15 carefully constructed cases, the book gives readers a first-hand look at some of the most interesting landmark and illuminating new controversies in U.S. environmental policy making. In her new section "New Issues, New Politics," Layzer adds two brand new cases: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The High Cost of Offshore Oil; and Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development. Lazyer provides maps, tables, figures, questions to consider, recommended readings, and useful websites to help students think critically about environmental policy and to facilitate further research. Zusammenfassung Explores conflicts among those with fundamentally different values, and how the way problems are framed in politics plays a central role in shaping how these values are translated into policies in the US Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics Two Critical Features of U.S. Environmental Policymaking Major Actors in Environmental Policymaking The Environmental Policymaking Process Case Selection Getting the Most Out of the Cases Notes Part 1: Regulating Polluters Chapter 2: The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 3: Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 4: Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 5: Market-Based Solutions: Acid Rain and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Part 2: History, Changing Values, and Natural Resource Management Chapter 6: Oil Versus Wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 7: Federal Grazing Policy: Some Things Never Change Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 8: Jobs Versus the Environment: Saving the Northern Spotted Owl Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 9: Playground or Paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 10: Crisis and Recovery in the New England Fisheries Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 11: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The High Cost of Offshore Oil Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Part 3: New Issues, New Politics Chapter 12: Climate Change: The Challenges of International Environmental Policymaking Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 13: Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When? Background The Case Outcomes Conclusions Questions to Consider Notes Chapter 14: Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses ...
