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Introduction | p. xi |
A Model and Policy Tools for the Urban Environment | p. 1 |
An Environmental Policy System Framework for the City | p. 3 |
Modeling the City's Physical System | p. 7 |
The Social System | p. 11 |
The Policy Process | p. 15 |
An Overview of the City System | p. 19 |
The Purpose of the System Model | p. 21 |
Policy-Analytic Concepts for the Urban Environment | p. 25 |
Private Goods | p. 25 |
Public Goods, Rivalry, Excludability, and Congestion | p. 26 |
Marketable Public Goods and Legal and Physical Excludability | p. 33 |
Common Pool Resources (CPRs) and the Tragedy of the Commons | p. 35 |
Externalities | p. 41 |
Recapitulation Regarding Public Goods | p. 43 |
The Right Amount of Pollution Is Rarely No Pollution | p. 44 |
The Law of Unintended Consequences | p. 45 |
The Fallacy of Sunk Costs | p. 46 |
How to Use the Information from This Chapter | p. 47 |
Discussion Questions | p. 47 |
Notes | p. 49 |
References | p. 49 |
Useful Policy Instruments for Correcting Market Failures | p. 51 |
Some Useful Policy Instruments | p. 52 |
Generic Solutions for Pure Private Goods | p. 52 |
Information Problems | p. 57 |
Generic Solutions for Marketable Public/Toll Goods | p. 58 |
Generic Solutions for CPRs | p. 61 |
Generic Solutions for Pure Public Goods | p. 68 |
Congestion and Externalities | p. 70 |
Excess Risk | p. 72 |
Conclusion | p. 73 |
Discussion Questions | p. 75 |
Recommended Website | p. 75 |
Benefit-Cost Analysis | p. 78 |
The Basic Idea of Benefit-Cost Analysis | p. 78 |
Three Important Issues in Formal BCA: Monetization, Standing, and Time | p. 80 |
Standing: Whose Costs and Benefits Should Be Counted? | p. 80 |
Monetization | p. 84 |
Taking into Account Externalities | p. 101 |
Plug-In Shadow Prices | p. 110 |
Other Issues That Are Likely to Arise in BCAs of Urban Environmental Policy | p. 110 |
Sensitivity Analysis | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 114 |
Discussion Question and Exercises | p. 116 |
Recommended Websites | p. 116 |
Bridging Policy, Politics, Economics, Ecology, Media, and Communication | p. 121 |
Integrating Policy, Ecosystem Management, and Environmental Media | p. 123 |
Ecosystem Management | p. 124 |
Adaptive Management | p. 129 |
The Holistic Consideration of Air, Water, and Land Within the Conceptual Model | p. 131 |
Checklists for Administrators | p. 134 |
Conclusion | p. 137 |
Environmental Media and Environmental Justice | p. 139 |
Air | p. 141 |
Interactions Between Air, Water, Land | p. 141 |
Key Ecological Issues | p. 142 |
Key Social Issues | p. 145 |
Policy Tools in the Air Context | p. 149 |
Conclusion and Checklist for Administrators | p. 159 |
Water | p. 163 |
Interactions | p. 164 |
Key Ecological Issues | p. 167 |
Key Social Issues and Policy Tools in the Water Context | p. 170 |
Conclusion and Checklist for Administrators | p. 186 |
Recommended Websites | p. 190 |
Land | p. 195 |
Land Use in the Urban Environment | p. 195 |
Trends in Urban Land Use | p. 196 |
Key Ecological Issues | p. 197 |
Key Social Issues | p. 205 |
Policy Tools in the Land Context | p. 208 |
Conclusion and Checklist for Administrators | p. 211 |
Environmental Justice | p. 215 |
The EJ Debate | p. 215 |
Does Environmental Injustice Matter? | p. 219 |
What Should Analysts Do About EJ? | p. 221 |
Conclusion | p. 225 |
Recommended Websites | p. 226 |
Communicating About Environmental Policy | p. 231 |
Learning from Citizens: Public Participation in Environmental Policy | p. 233 |
Recent Trends in Public Participation | p. 234 |
Benefits, Limits, and Cautions: Is It Worth the Effort? | p. 238 |
Tools for Public Participation | p. 238 |
Conclusion | p. 251 |
Recommended Websites | p. 253 |
References | p. 253 |
Creative, Democratic Methods for Teaching and Learning from Citizens | p. 257 |
Use Excellent Graphics | p. 258 |
Reimagine Graphical Concepts | p. 262 |
Consider Policy Games | p. 262 |
Use Cutting-Edge Technology to Present Decision-Making Data Creatively | p. 274 |
Apply Several Creative Methods to Legitimation: Use an SVR | p. 275 |
Conclusion | p. 281 |
Notes | p. 282 |
References | p. 282 |
Conclusion | p. 285 |
Take a Holistic Approach to Environmental Policy | p. 285 |
Use Adaptive, Flexible, and Inclusive Management | p. 287 |
Consider Interactions Between Environmental Media | p. 287 |
Make Contextual and Ethical Use of Policy Tools | p. 287 |
Summary | p. 290 |
Note | p. 291 |
References | p. 291 |
Index | p. 293 |
About the Authors | p. 311 |
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