The New Generation Of Environmental Protection

Author : Marian Chertow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300073038

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Thinking Ecologically by Marian Chertow Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the obvious enemy: large American factories with belching smokestacks and pipes gushing wastes. Federal legislation has succeeded in providing cleaner air and water, but we now confront a different set of environmental problems--less visible and more subtle. This important book offers thought-provoking ideas on how America can respond to changing public health and ecological risks and create sound environmental policy for the future. The innovative thinkers of the Next Generation Project of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy--experts from business, government, nongovernmental organizations, and academia--propose reforms that balance environmental efforts with other public needs and issues. They call for new foundations for environmental law and policy, adoption of a more diverse set of policy tools and strategies (economic incentives, ecolabels), and new connections between critical sectors (agriculture, energy, transportation, service providers) and environmental policy. Future progress must involve not only officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental protection departments, say the authors, but also decision-makers as diverse as mayors, farmers, energy company executives, and delivery route planners. To be effective, next-generation policy-making will view environmental challenges comprehensively, connect academic theory with practical policy, and bridge the gaps that have caused recent policy debates to break down in rancor. This book begins the process of accomplishing these challenging goals.

Author : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722471646

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New Generation of Environmental Protection by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pdf

New Generation of Environmental Protection: EPA's 5 Year Strategic Plan

Author : Carol Martha Browner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : UIUC:30112097778143

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The Common Sense Initiative by Carol Martha Browner Pdf

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Administrator
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : UIUC:30112109117769

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The New Generation of Environmental Protection by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Administrator Pdf

Author : Mary Graham
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815791126

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The Morning After Earth Day by Mary Graham Pdf

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publication As we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental protection often remains paralyzed and polarized. But across the country, environmental pragmatism is gaining ground. The Morning after Earth Day explores how policymakers, business executives, and citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes making peace with surprising compromises. After a generation of progress in reducing large sources of industrial and municipal pollution and in improving management of public lands, today's environmental conflicts are more complex. They involve controlling pollution caused by farmers, small businesses, drivers of aging cars, and homeowners, as well as minimizing ecological threats on private land. Remedies often lie in politically treacherous territory--persuading ordinary people to change their daily routines rather than ordering big business to adopt new technology or government officials to manage land differently. As Mary Graham shows, practical approaches are resolving immediate disputes and providing clues for future policy. But core dilemmas remain. They include how to reconcile environmental protection with respect for private property, how to balance federal and state authority, and how much to rely on behavioral versus technological change. Only by reclaiming the debate about these dilemmas from extremists and confronting them head-on will the nation build a solid foundation for the next generation of environmental policy.

Author : World Resources Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008940400

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A New Generation of Environmental Leadership by World Resources Institute Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309084222

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New Tools for Environmental Protection by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Pdf

Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from large "point sources" to more diffuse sources that are more difficult and expensive to regulate. The political climate has also changed in the United States since the 1970s in ways that provide impetus to seek alternatives to regulation. This book examines the potential of some of these "new tools" that emphasize education, information, and voluntary measures. Contributors summarize what we know about the effectiveness of these tools, both individually and in combination with regulatory and economic policy instruments. They also extract practical lessons from this knowledge and consider what is needed to make these tools more effective. The book will be of interest to environmental policy practitioners and to researchers and students concerned with applying social and behavioral sciences knowledge to improve environmental quality.

Author : Randall S. Abate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108480116

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Climate Change and the Voiceless by Randall S. Abate Pdf

Identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless and demonstrates how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively.

Author : Geoff Dembicki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781632864826

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Are We Screwed? by Geoff Dembicki Pdf

A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change. The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. With time ticking down, 31-year-old journalist Geoff Dembicki journeyed to Silicon Valley, Canada's tar sands, Washington, DC, Wall Street and the Paris climate talks to find out if he should hope or despair. What he learned surprised him. Millions of people his age want to radically change our world, and they are at the forefront of resistance to the politicians and CEOs steering our planet towards disaster. In Are We Screwed?, Dembicki gives a firsthand account of this movement, and the shift in generational values behind it, through the stories of young people fighting for their survival. It begins with a student who abandons society to live in the rainforest and ends with a Muslim feminist fomenting a political revolution. We meet a Brooklyn artist terrifying the oil industry, a Norwegian scientist running across the melting Arctic and an indigenous filmmaker challenging the worldview of Mark Zuckerberg. Are We Screwed? makes a bold argument in these troubled times: A safer and more equitable future is more achievable than we've been led to believe. This book will forever change how you view the biggest existential challenge of our era and redefine the generation now battling against the odds to solve it.

Author : Alyson C. Flournoy,David M. Driesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0511716257

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Beyond Environmental Law by Alyson C. Flournoy,David M. Driesen Pdf

This book offers a vision for the third generation of environmental law designed to enhance its ability to protect our environment. The book presents two core proposals, an Environmental Legacy Act to preserve a defined environmental legacy for future generations and an Environmental Competition Statute to spark movement to new clean technologies. The first proposal would require, for the first time, that the federal government define an environmental legacy that it must preserve for future generations. The second would establish a market competition to maximize environmental protection. The balance of the book provides complementary proposals and analysis. The first generation of environmental law sought broad protection of health and the environment in a fairly fragmented way. The second sought to enhance environmental law's efficiency through cost-benefit analysis and market mechanisms. These proposals seek to create a broader, more creative approach to solving environmental problems.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Climate Uncertainty and Water Resources Management
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309046770

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Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Climate Uncertainty and Water Resources Management Pdf

The question of whether the earth's climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate. But the fact that climate is variable over time is well known. These two elements of climatic uncertainty affect water resources planning and management in the American West. Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty examines the scientific basis for predictions of climate change, the implications of climate uncertainty for water resources management, and the management options available for responding to climate variability and potential climate change.

Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815798668

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Environmental Governance by Donald F. Kettl Pdf

Environmental policy has been the focus of reform efforts for more than a generation. Now policymakers face a new and challenging set of issues: how to develop strategies for attacking new environmental problems, how to develop better strategies for solving the old ones, and how to do both in ways that are more efficient, less taxing, and engender less political opposition. On one level, environmental performance is the problem. On a broader level, the question is how reshaped intergovernmental partnerships will affect how America is governed. This book charts the politics of the next generation of environmental policy: how citizens will sort competing goals and responsibilities, how conflict and collaboration will shape the policy options, and how the nation¡¯s political institutions will respond. These issues raise tough political problems that will define which options are viable and how different options will reshape politics. The contributors outline a path to fresh perspectives on the critical problems that must be addressed. Contributors: Christopher H. Foreman Jr. (University of Maryland, Brookings Institution), Donald F. Kettl (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brookings Institution), Shelley H. Metzenbaum (University of Maryland), Barry G. Rabe (University of Michigan), Graham K. Wilson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) About the Editor Donald F. Kettl is professor of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His recent books include The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance (Brookings, 2000) and The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century.

Author : John C. Dernbach
Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1585760366

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Stumbling Toward Sustainability by John C. Dernbach Pdf

In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed to implement an ambitious plan for ecologically sustainable human development. This book is a comprehensive review of U.S. efforts to achieve such development since Rio. The U.S. has unquestionably begun to take steps toward sustainable development. Yet the nation is now far from being a sustainable society, and in many respects is farther away than it was in 1992. Nevertheless, legal and policy tools are available to put the U.S. on a direct path to sustainability. This book brings together 42 distinguished experts from a variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines. It is among the most thorough assessments ever conducted of U.S. law and policy concerning the environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0195531914

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Our Common Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Environmental laboratories
ISBN : PSU:000044855734

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Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--National Research Council (NRC) Findings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Pdf