Environmental Politics and Policy

by Rosenbaum, Walter A.

• ISBN13: 9780872894402
• ISBN10: 0872894401
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Author Biography

Walter A. Rosenbaum is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida

Table of Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
After Earth Day: American Environmentalism in Transformation	p. 1
A Texas Bet with Global Stakes	p. 2
From Greenhouse to White House to State House	p. 4
The Environmental Legacy	p. 5
The Political Legacy: From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush	p. 7
Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future	p. 10
Plan for the Book	p. 21
Conclusion	p. 24
Suggested Readings	p. 25
Notes	p. 25
Making Policy: The Process	p. 27
The White House and the Greenhouse	p. 28
The Policy Cycle	p. 31
Constitutional Constraints	p. 34
Incrementalism	p. 36
Interest-Group Liberalism	p. 37
Organized Environmentalism	p. 40
Environmentalism and Its Critics	p. 49
The Public and Environmentalism	p. 52
The Special Place of Science in Policy Making	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 61
Suggested Readings	p. 61
Notes	p. 62
Making Policy: Institutions and Politics	p. 65
The Presidency	p. 68
Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance	p. 74
The Bureaucracy: Power through Implementation	p. 82
The Courts: The Role of Appraisal	p. 97
The Political Environment of Environmental Policy Making	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 109
Suggested Readings	p. 110
Notes	p. 110
Common Policy Challenges: Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice	p. 114
A Toxic Nightmare from Toyland?	p. 115
Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science	p. 118
What Risks Are Acceptable?	p. 125
Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 138
Suggested Readings	p. 140
Notes	p. 140
More Choice: The Battle over Regulatory Economics	p. 143
The Benefit-Cost Debate	p. 144
Regulation Strategies: Command and Control vs. the Marketplace	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 170
Suggested Readings	p. 171
Notes	p. 171
Command and Control in Action: Air and Water Pollution Regulation	p. 174
The Political Anatomy of Command-and-Control Regulation	p. 175
Regulating Air Quality	p. 180
Regulating Water Quality	p. 196
Conclusion	p. 213
Suggested Readings	p. 214
Notes	p. 214
A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances	p. 217
An Ambiguous Inheritance	p. 220
The Rush to Regulate	p. 228
Federal Law: Regulation from the Cradle to the Grave?	p. 234
The Regulatory Thicket	p. 240
Conclusion	p. 248
Suggested Readings	p. 249
Notes	p. 249
Energy: Nuclear Dreams, Black Gold, and Vanishing Crude	p. 253
Fossil Fuels and Public Apathy: A Perilous Combination	p. 255
Nuclear Twilight or Second Dawn?	p. 260
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Middle	p. 271
Stubborn Hope: Breakthrough Technology, the White House, and the Greenhouse	p. 273
The Cold War's Wasteland: Nuclear Weapons Facilities	p. 274
Black Gold	p. 279
Conclusion	p. 284
Suggested Readings	p. 286
Notes	p. 286
635 Million Acres of Politics: The Battle for Public Lands	p. 289
ANWR: Public Land Politics at a Boil	p. 290
A History of Contested Access	p. 293
The Public Domain	p. 294
Conflicts over Multiple Use	p. 298
The Pluralistic Politics of the Public Lands	p. 302
The Fate of the Forests	p. 316
How Much Wilderness Is Enough?	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 326
Suggested Readings	p. 327
Notes	p. 327
The United States and Climate Diplomacy: The Emerging Politics of Global Environmentalism	p. 330
Prologue: The Greenhouse Visits the White House	p. 331
Transboundary Environmental Politics	p. 333
Climate Diplomacy: Ozone Politics and the Montreal Protocols	p. 346
Climate Diplomacy: Acid Precipitation	p. 349
Climate Diplomacy: Climate Warming	p. 353
The Emerging Politics of Sustainability	p. 359
Conclusion	p. 365
Suggested Readings	p. 366
Notes	p. 367
List of Abbreviations	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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