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With the right information, we can develop public policies that
work better. All too often, public policy textbooks offer a basic
grounding in the policy process without the benefit of integrating
the use of policy analysis. Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong
take a different tack. Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and
Alternatives, Seventh Edition helps students understand how and why
policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. The text
encourages them to not only question the assumptions of policy
analyst, but also recognize how these strategies are used in the
support of political arguments. The authors introduce and fully
integrate an evaluative approach to policy to encourage critical
and creative thinking on issues ranging from health care to climate
change. From a concise review of institutions, policy actors, and
major theoretical models to a discussion of the nature of policy
analysis and its practice, Kraft and Furlong show students how to
employ evaluative criteria in six substantive policy areas.
Students come away with the analytic tools they need to understand
that the motivations of policy actors--both within and outside of
government--influence a complex yet comprehensible policy agenda.
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings
together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in
American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their
implications for the twenty-first century. Students will learn to
decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and
policy dilemmas that shape today's environmental politics. The
Eleventh Edition examines how policy has changed within federal
institutions and state and local governments, as well as how
environmental governance affects private sector policies and
practices. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine
the public's opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy,
natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy
of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump
administration's four years of policy changes and students will
walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future
challenges that policymakers will confront as the American
environmental movement continues to affect the political process.
Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate
the changes and continuities in American environmental
policy since the late 1960s and help students think
critically about their implications for current policy.Â
The author introduces a revolutionary concept of the Kingdom of
God which is intended to initiate a conversation among committed
followers of Jesus Christ. Followers who are convinced there is
something more than the placebo, which promises "pie in the sky in
the great by-and-by.
The author introduces a revolutionary concept of the Kingdom of
God which is intended to initiate a conversation among committed
followers of Jesus Christ. Followers who are convinced there is
something more than the placebo, which promises "pie in the sky in
the great by-and-by.
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental
policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging
from "environment" to "sustainable consumption." Concepts are
thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they
enable, but also constrain, reasoning and debate and serve as
building blocks for more elaborate arguments. This book traces the
links between conceptual innovation in the environmental sphere and
the evolution of environmental policy and discourse. It offers both
a broad framework for examining the emergence, evolution, and
effects of policy concepts and a detailed analysis of eleven
influential environmental concepts. In recent decades, conceptual
evolution has been particularly notable in environmental
governance, as new problems have emerged and as environmental
issues have increasingly intersected with other areas.
"Biodiversity," for example, was unheard of until the late 1980s;
"negative carbon emissions" only came into being over the last few
years. After a review of concepts and their use in environmental
argument, chapters chart the trajectories of a range of
environmental concepts: environment, sustainable development,
biodiversity, environmental assessment, critical loads, adaptive
management, green economy, environmental risk, environmental
security, environmental justice, and sustainable consumption. The
book provides a valuable resource for scholars and policy makers
and also offers a novel introduction to the environmental policy
field through the evolution of its conceptual categories.
Contributors Richard N. L. Andrews, Karin Backstrand, Karen
Baehler, Daniel J. Fiorino, Yrjoe Haila, Michael E. Kraft, Oluf
Langhelle, Judith A. Layzer, James Meadowcroft, Alexis Schulman,
Johannes Stripple, Philip J. Vergragt
A new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that
demonstrate the trend in U.S. environmental policy toward
sustainability at local and regional levels. This analysis of U.S.
environmental policy offers a conceptual framework that serves as a
valuable roadmap to the array of laws, programs, and approaches
developed over the last four decades. Combining case studies and
theoretical discussion, the book views environmental policy in the
context of three epochs: the rise of command-and-control federal
regulation in the 1970s, the period of efficiency-based reform
efforts that followed, and the more recent trend toward sustainable
development and integrated approaches at local and regional levels.
It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the new approaches and
places these experiments within the larger framework of an emerging
trend toward community sustainability. Toward Sustainable
Communities assesses environmental policy successes and failures at
the subnational, regional, and state levels and offers eight case
studies of policy arenas in which transformations have been
occurring-from air and water pollution control and state and local
climate change policy to open space preservation, urban growth, and
regional ecosystem management. It discusses the various meanings of
sustainability and whether the concept can serve as a foundation
for a new era of environmental policy. The second edition has been
substantially updated, with five new chapters (including the
chapter on climate change) and all other chapters revised and
shortened. It is suitable as a primary or secondary text for
environmental policy courses and as a resource for scholars and
policymakers. Contributors Elisa Barbour, Michele M. Betsill,
Daniel J. Fiorino, Marc Gaden, Lamont C. Hempel, Michael E. Kraft,
William D. Leach, Mark Lubell, Daniel A. Mazmanian, Nicole
Nakagawa, Kent E. Portney, Daniel Press, Paul A. Sabatier, Barry G.
Rabe, Michael B. Teitz
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