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This book takes a creative approach to policymaking, urging citizens to engage fully with democratic governance to create more effective environmental protection programs. The technical and economic feasibility of transforming our practices to develop more sustainable and nurturing societies encourages us to jointly envision a better future.
List of contents
Preface
1. The Facts Have Spoken: We Can Do It
2. The Government of Us
3. A Story from the Front
4. The Story That Poisoned Our Well
5. The Big Picture
6. Anticipatory Governance
7. The Quality of Our Awareness: Envisioning Future Programs, Remembering Forgotten Ones
8. An Equitable System
9. The Fixer-Upper
10. Transforming Systems
11. Endnote
Appendix: Addenda to the Agenda
About the Author
About the author
Richard (Rick) Reibstein teaches environmental law at Boston University, and has taught at Clark, Northeastern, Suffolk, MIT, and Harvard Extension and Summer schools. Reibstein has published many articles on environmental law and policy.
He is the winner of the following awards: Healthy Kids Hero, (2016); Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (2015); Environmental Merit Award, Individual Category, Region I New England (2000); and Al Gore's Hammer Award for Reinvention in Government (1998).
While at the Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance his work was key to the success of projects that won two Ford Foundation awards for Innovations in State and Local Government and state awards for excellence in government. He created and edits the following websites: The Environmental Citizen www.trunity.com/ec-blog; A Public Conversation on Lead www.leadconversation.net; and his BU Class "Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations" www.bu.edu/rccp.
Summary
This book takes a creative approach to policymaking, urging citizens to engage fully with democratic governance to create more effective environmental protection programs. The technical and economic feasibility of transforming our practices to develop more sustainable and nurturing societies encourages us to jointly envision a better future.
