Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock

by Anderson, Terry L.

• ISBN13: 9780817994723
• ISBN10: 0817994726
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

Although the U.S. Congress has made progress toward fundamental change in economic and social programs. It remains gridlocked when it comes to creating needed environmental policy reform. This book shows how policymakers and opinion leader's can break that gridlock and offers specific policy recommendations that will be palatable to voters across the political spectrum.

Author Biography

Terry Anderson, the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center, a think tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, and professor emeritus at Montana State University.

Table of Contents

Prologue	vii
Terry L. Anderson
1 Conservation--Native American Style	1	(21)
Terry L. Anderson
2 Ecosystem Management and Reinventing Government	22	(31)
Ronald N. Johnson
3 Rekindling the Privatization Fires: Political Lands Revisited	53	(29)
Terry L. Anderson
Donald R. Leal
4 Fixing the Endangered Species Act	82	(33)
Randy T. Simmons
5 Superfund: The Shortcut That Failed	115	(25)
Richard L. Stroup
6 Environmental Regulation: Lessons from the Past and Future Prospects	140	(29)
Bruce Yandle
Epilogue	169	(4)
Terry L. Anderson
Contributors	173	(4)
Index	177