The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy, 3rd Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604266120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 616 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great teaching tool" according to C. A. Canik. A great teaching tool. I am sorry to hear about the passing of Judith Layzer.. "Meh" according to Marisa202. Really boring read. The Environmental Case - Layzer One of the most thorough and comprehensive books I've seen about how many of the US environmental policies evolved. Layzer builds the cases with historical context, case law, and social aspects. For example, using the Dudley Street case in Boston, she builds the case for environmental justice issues. The events at Love Canal lead to the Superfund Act (CERCLA). A must-read for students of environmental policy!
Environmental policy cannot be seen in just black and white, but instead contains many shades of gray. Lazyer provides maps, tables, figures, questions to consider, recommended readings, and useful websites to help students think critically about environmental policy and to facilitate further research.. This third edition features fully revised and updated case studies, as well as three brand-new cases: Cape Wind and Alternative Energy, Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay, and the restoration of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. New to this edition, Layzer expands the final section of her book to consider the issue of resilience in the face of a changing climate. environmental policy making. Judith Layzer explores these two main themes in environmental policy making in the anticipated third edition of The Environmental Case.Through its 16 carefully constructed cases, the book gives readers a first-hand look at some of the most interesting and illuminating controversies in U.S. Environmental battles-even the most heated-are essentially conflicts among those with fundamentally different values, and how problems are framed in politics plays a central role in shaping how these values are translated into policies
The introduction develops the guiding framework, namely that divergent problem definitions - stemming from intractable value conflicts - remain at the heart of U.S. The book facilitates environmental politics courses by providing multiple cases in a single, affordable text, and I believe it will continue to serve as a standard for the future -- Daniel P. environmental battles. Aldrich Judith Layzer's The Environmental Case is an indispensable book for my environmental policy and politics course. The Environmental Case continues to lead the field of undergraduate-friendly texts, providing theoretical frameworks and detailed case studies of domestic and international environmental eve
Layzer is assistant professor of environmental policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Judith A. environmental politics, particularly on the role of science and the use of ecosystem management and other collaborative approaches to environmental policy.. Her research focuses on U.S