Although considerable progress has been made in improving
environmental quality in parts of the United States, many
localities have yet to meet federal air and water quality standards
and many hazardous-waste sites remain to be cleaned up. At the
international level, the U.S. and other countries continue to face
critical environmental problems. As a contribution to the
literature on public policy and to help educate students about
natural resource issues, this book identifies the likely "hot
spots" of environmental policy and presents alternative and often
opposing points of view on the major controversies that are likely
to be with us well into the next century. Among the topics covered
are comparative risk assessment; market incentives in environmental
regulation; environmental justice; public versus private management
of public lands; international trade and sustainable development;
and the relationship between national security and environmental
protection.
"The 'controversies format' makes for interesting reading and a
good teaching tool. Sustainability is the current catch word among
natural resource managers and environmentalists, yet the meaning of
the term is unclear. This book goes a long way toward explaining
the debates surrounding sustainability. It is a useful text for
upper division environmental policy courses and graduate seminars".
-- Helen Ingram, Director, The Udall Center for Studies in Public
Policy, University of Arizona
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