Daniel Press brings his considerable experience to light in this
excellent book, and it should be a required read for every scholar
and student of environmental studies and science. He convincingly
leverages an evidence based approach by digging into the data on
toxic release, acid rain, non-point source water pollution, and
industrial recycling to challenge the conventional wisdom that
environmental regulation in the United States has been settled and
is successful. Issuing a clarion call to those who care about
environmental values, he urges us to redirect our action and
discourse and to rethink how we can be more effective, with his
specific recommendations for policy and regulatory reform.' - Toddi
A. Steelman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada'Those of us who
work on environmental policy should never let the grind of our
day-to-day challenges turn us away from the ultimate question of
whether we are leaving a better environment to the next generation.
Daniel Press looks at the current state of environmental regulation
and probes just this question. It s worth a read for anyone who
cares about the decisions we must make - and the processes we now
use to get to those decisions - that will shape the world for years
to come.' - John Laird, California Secretary for Natural Resources
'In American Environmental Policy Daniel Press guides the reader
through not only the motivations and concepts that have been
employed to set land, water, and air pollution policies, but also a
dive into the details of both the environmental science and the
legal and regulatory science that determines the success or failure
of these actions. This book is instrumental for all those
interested in both the why and the how - and the how much - of the
legacy of Rachel Carson and the past five decades of environmental
management.' - Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley,
US 'Daniel Press's new book is an excellent one. By focusing on
implementation - what happens after policy has been adopted - Press
demonstrates the weaknesses of pollution control policy in the
United States. Case studies of acid rain, nonpoint source water
pollution, and paper recycling illuminate 'regulatory failure,' the
structural problems of American regulatory approaches. He concludes
with recommendations to move us ahead, a path forward that focuses
on performance, information, incentives, and source reduction.
Strongly recommended.' - Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury
College, US More than 40 years after the United States launched
bold efforts to curb pollution and waste, American environmental
management has stalled. Drawing extensively on recent environmental
science, engineering, regulatory agency data and trade information,
American Environmental Policy explores how environmental management
in the US has fallen short of its early promise and reputation.
Arguing that policies need to be redesigned for the 21st century,
this book offers examples and principles of effective environmental
policy reforms. It concludes with suggestions for how new policies
should be designed, as well as examples of successful regulatory
innovations already in practice around the world. Environmental
policy scholars, students and science and environment journalists
interested in evaluating environmental policy over time will find
this to book of value. The approaches discussed in this book will
also be useful for environmental and natural resource agency
officials.
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