Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262512297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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This analysis of U.S. Portney, Daniel Press, Paul A. 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. 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. Fiorino, Marc Gaden, Lamont C. Mazmanian, Nicole Nakagawa, Kent E. Betsill, Daniel J. 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. Sabatier, Barry G. Leach, Mark Lubell, Daniel A. Kraft, William D. It discusses the various meanings of sustainability and whether the concept can serve as a foundation for a new era of environmental policy. Rabe, Michael B.
Rosenbaum, Interim Director, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida) . Not least important, the book's lucid and cogent style makes it an excellent teaching resource. A further improvement of an already excellent book. The authors make several particularly significant contributions to the study of America's sustainable growth movement: they place the evolution of sustainability policies within a coherent historical and conceptual context accessible to lay readers and specialists; they illuminate the nation's subnational governments as 'the policy and idea incubators of the nation' in sustainability policymaking; and their analysis nicely combines discussion and evaluation of substantive policy and concept
Mazmanian is Professor of Public Policy at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.Michael E. Daniel A. . Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs Emeritus and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Five Stars as expected. Five Stars Good book to understand better our environmental policy and ways to approach future toward sustainable management or natural resources.. Jeremy Gregory said Four Stars. This is a great, informative book.