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Book SynopsisAnswers 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 Casecaptures the real-world complexity of creating environmental policy, and this much-anticipated Sixth Editioncontains 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 • A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics Part I • Regulating Polluters Chapter 2 • The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts Chapter 3 • Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear Chapter 4 • Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay Chapter 5 • Market-Based Solutions: A Forgotten Success Story Part II • History, Changing Values, and Natural Resource Management Chapter 6 • Oil Versus Wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Chapter 7 • Federal Grazing Policy: Some Things Never Change Chapter 8 • Jobs Versus the Environment: Saving the Northern Spotted Owl Chapter 9 • Playground or Paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park Chapter 10 • Lessons from the Fish: Crisis and Recovery in New England Part III • New Issues, New Politics Chapter 11 • Climate Change: The Crisis of our Time Chapter 12 • Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When? Chapter 13 • Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development Chapter 14 • Making Trade-Offs: Urban Sprawl and the Evolving System of Growth Management in Portland, Oregon Chapter 15 • The Salton Sea: A Desert Mirage Chapter 16 • Conclusions: Politics, Values, and Environmental Policy Change
