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Informationen zum Autor Chelsea Schelly is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and the Environmental and Energy Policy graduate program at Michigan Technological University, USA. Aparajita Banerjee recently completed her PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy from Michigan Technological University, USA. Klappentext It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment. From energy development to resource extraction to use of land and water, humans are having a devastating effect on the earth's ability to sustain human societies and quality lives. Many approaches to changing the negative environmental consequences of human activities focus on one of two options, emphasizing either technological fixes or individual behavior change to reduce environmental harms through sustainable consumption habits. This book takes a different approach, focusing on the role of environmental policy in shaping the possibilities for and creating hindrances to pursuing more sustainable use of environmental resources.This unique compilation examines environmental policy through empirical case studies, demonstrating through each particular example how environmental policies are formed, how they operate, what they do in terms of shaping behaviors and future trajectories, and how they intersect with other social dynamics such as politics, power, social norms, and social organization. By providing case studies from both the United States and Mexico, this book provides a cross-national perspective on current environmental policies and their role in creating and limiting sustainable human futures.Organized around four key parts - Water; Land; Health and Wellbeing; and Resilience - and with a central theme of environmental justice and equity, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and sustainability. Zusammenfassung This unique compilation examines environmental policy through empirical case studies, demonstrating how environmental policies are formed, how they operate, what they do in terms of shaping behaviours and future trajectories, and how they intersect with other social dynamics such as politics, power, social norms, and social organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: When One Size Does Not Fit All: Environmental Policy, Social Context, and Social Justice Aparajita Banerjee and Chelsea Schelly PART 1: Water, Water Management, and Adaptation to Changing Water Landscapes Chapter 1: Nutrient Trading Credits: Best Management Practices and Policy Hurdles for Non-Point Source Polluters in the Chesapeake Bay M. Dawn King Chapter 2: Water Management in the Upper Klamath Basin: Collaboration and Polarization Patricia Snyder Chapter 3: Toward a Whole-of-Government and Whole-of-Community Approach for Regional Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Lessons Learned from the Hampton Roads Intergovernmental Pilot Project Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Michelle Covi, Carol Considine, Burton St. John III, Meagan M. Jordan, and J. Gail Nicula PART 2: Land Management and Land Use Chapter 4: U.S. Public Lands and a New Administration: New and Old Issues John Freemuth Chapter 5: Perceptions of Contentiousness: How Individual Traits Shape Environmental Policy Conflicts Kristin Olofsson Chapter 6: Solid Waste Governance: Consumption and Culture in the Globalization Era Beatriz Adriana Venegas Sahagun PART 3: Human Health and Well-Being Chapter 7: Where is the Justice? An Examination of the Failure of the US EPA Office of Civil Rights to Ensure Environmental Justice for Poor and Minority Communities Amelie Simons Chapter 8: The Power of the Talking Points: Persuasive Power and the Challenges of Sustainable Natural Resource Developm...
List of contents
Introduction: When One Size Does Not Fit All: Environmental Policy, Social Context, and Social Justice
Aparajita Banerjee and Chelsea Schelly
PART 1: Water, Water Management, and Adaptation to Changing Water Landscapes
Chapter 1: Nutrient Trading Credits: Best Management Practices and Policy Hurdles for Non-Point Source Polluters in the Chesapeake Bay
M. Dawn King
Chapter 2: Water Management in the Upper Klamath Basin: Collaboration and Polarization
Patricia Snyder
Chapter 3: Toward a Whole-of-Government and Whole-of-Community Approach for Regional Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Lessons Learned from the Hampton Roads Intergovernmental Pilot Project
Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Michelle Covi, Carol Considine, Burton St. John III, Meagan M. Jordan, and J. Gail Nicula
PART 2: Land Management and Land Use
Chapter 4: U.S. Public Lands and a New Administration: New and Old Issues
John Freemuth
Chapter 5: Perceptions of Contentiousness: How Individual Traits Shape Environmental Policy Conflicts
Kristin Olofsson
Chapter 6: Solid Waste Governance: Consumption and Culture in the Globalization Era
Beatriz Adriana Venegas Sahagun
PART 3: Human Health and Well-Being
Chapter 7: Where is the Justice? An Examination of the Failure of the US EPA Office of Civil Rights to Ensure Environmental Justice for Poor and Minority Communities
Amelie Simons
Chapter 8: The Power of the Talking Points: Persuasive Power and the Challenges of Sustainable Natural Resource Development
Amanda Kreuze, Roman Sidortsov, and Chelsea Schelly
Chapter 9: Social and Political Inequality as Challenges in Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Government-Funded Improved Cookstove Program in Rural Mexico
Aparajita Banerjee and Chelsea Schelly
PART 4: Resilience
Chapter 10: The Role of Voluntary Agreements in a Hybrid Model of Environmental Law Enforcement
Joice Chang
Chapter 11: Institutional Barriers to Managing Dynamic Landscapes: Lessons Learned in Southwestern Colorado
Nina Burkardt and Patricia Orth
Chapter 12: The Long Road to Sustainability of Mexican Oil Palm Production
Erin C. Pischke
Conclusion: Environmental Policy and Pursuit of Just Sustainability
Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee
