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This edited collection provides a cross-sectional review of environmental legislation and administration in the United States, with comparative chapters relating to Canada and New Zealand. The experts look at a variety of environmental issues that create policy problems, and while the book offers no blueprint or prognosis of environmental policy in the twenty-first century, it does offer insights into trends that will influence the future shape of that policy.
The book is prefaced by an overview of the environment as a problem for policy by Lynton K. Caldwell, who has been credited with inventing the term environmental policy. Experts examine the role of risk analysis in policy making; the transnational issues associated with NAFTA and GATT are discussed; and the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to integrate policy and administration are described. The perspective of the authors is transnational, with several chapters focusing primarily on U.S. policy.
List of contents
Introduction
Environment as a Problem for Policy by Lynton K. Caldwell
Progressive Ratcheting of Environmental Law: Implications for Public Management by Rosemary O'Leary and Tae Joon Lah
Rethinking the Role of Risk Assessment in Environmental Policy Making by Audrey M. Armour
NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation by J. Owen Saunders
World Trade, the GATT, and the Environment by Kerry Krutilla
Policy Regimes for International Waste Trade by Laura A. Strohm and Roy W. Shin
Boundary Issues and Canadian Environmental Legislation by Steven Kennett
Integrated Impact Assessment: The New Zealand Experiment by Robert V. Bartlett
Integrated Environmental Policy in the United States by Odelia Funke
International Opinion at the Century's End: Public Attitudes Towards Environmental Issues by Riley E. Dunlap
Index
About the author
LYNTON K. CALDWELL is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
ROBERT V. BARTLETT is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University.
