The Environmental Case

The Environmental Case
Author: Judith A. Layzer
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2023-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1071870254

Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy. The Environmental Case captures the real-world complexity of creating environmental policy, and this much-anticipated Sixth Edition contains 14 carefully constructed cases, including a new study of the Salton Sea crisis. Through her analysis, Sara Rinfret continues the work of Judith Layzer and explores the background, players, contributing factors, and outcomes of each case, and gives readers insight into some of the most interesting and controversial issues in U.S. environmental policymaking.

Events and the Environment

Events and the Environment
Author: Robert Case
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415605954

This title provides a through exploration of the multi-dimensional relationships between events and the environment.

The Environmental Case

The Environmental Case
Author: Judith A. Layzer
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452239894

Through its 15 carefully constructed cases, the book gives readers a first-hand look at some of the most interesting landmark and illuminating new controversies in U.S. environmental policy making. In her new section "New Issues, New Politics," Layzer adds two brand new cases: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The High Cost of Offshore Oil; and Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development. 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.

How to Think Seriously about the Planet

How to Think Seriously about the Planet
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199371245

Roger Scruton here makes a plea to rescue environmental politics from the activist movements and to return them to the people. The book defends the legacy of home-building and practical reasoning with which ordinary human beings solve their environmental problems, and attacks the alarmism and hysteria that are being used to uproot these resources, while putting nothing coherent in their place.

Environmental Regulation and Compulsory Public Disclosure

Environmental Regulation and Compulsory Public Disclosure
Author: Shakeb Afsah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415657652

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale - Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-compliance, and Black for causing environmental damage. These ratings are then publicly disclosed through a formal press conference and posted on the internet. Not only did this simple rating scheme create a major media buzz and enhanced environmental awareness of the general public, but it also unleashed a wide range of performance incentives that showed how markets with environmental information could function in a developing country setting. The authors provide a multidisciplinary analysis of how the PROPER program harnessed the power of public disclosure to abate the problem of industrial pollution. They describe how the program has successfully improved the average environmental compliance rate from close to thrity per cent in 1995 to as high as seventy per cent in 2011. This improvement was driven primarily by information disclosure, which avoided expensive and unpredictable legal enforcement through the court system of Indonesia. The combination of institutional history and detailed economic and analyses sheds light on the role of policy entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for disclosure and transparency, despite the constraints of the Suharto regime. The PROPER program is now internationally recognized and continues to serve as a model for many developing countries.

Mining and the Environment

Mining and the Environment
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1999
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0889368287

Mining and the Environment: Case studies from the Americas

Climate Justice

Climate Justice
Author: Randall Abate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Climate change mitigation
ISBN: 9781585761814

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology

Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology
Author: Elizabeth Reitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780387713960

This book highlights studies addressing significant anthropological issues in the Americas from the perspective of environmental archaeology. The book uses case studies to resolve questions related to human behavior in the past rather than to demonstrate the application of methods. Each chapter is an original or revised work by an internationally-recognized scientist. This second edition is based on the 1996 book of the same title. The editors have invited back a number of contributors from the first edition to revise and update their chapter. New studies are included in order to cover recent developments in the field or additional pertinent topics.

Case Studies in Environmental Ethics

Case Studies in Environmental Ethics
Author: Patrick Derr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2003-10-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0742572641

Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics. Each case presents factual information on a particular topic, followed by a discussion of the ethical implications of each topic and several insightful discussion questions. The cases are concise yet rich in detail and controversy to provide significant classroom discussion. These cases focus on philosophical and policy decisions that students are likely to encounter in their everyday lives. In addition, the book provides numerous sources and an Internet resources section to allow students to research the issues found in the cases.