1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707053303321

Titolo

Oversight of the cause, response, and impacts of EPA's Gold King Mine spill : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, September 16, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 66 pages) : illustration

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 114-188

Soggetti

Hazardous waste sites - Colorado

Mine drainage - Animas River Watershed (Colo. and N.M.)

Water - Pollution - Animas River Watershed (Colo. and N.M.)

Public health - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Public health - Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado

Public health - Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

Legislative hearings.

Gold King Mine (San Juan County, Colo.) Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on March 21, 2016).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Publishing Office.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781801703321

Autore

Greenberg Michael R

Titolo

Environmental policy analysis and practice [[electronic resource] /] / Michael R. Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-77649-1

9786611776497

0-8135-4473-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

363.700973

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States

Environmental protection - Political aspects - United States

Environmental protection - United States - Public opinion

Environmental responsibility - United States

Policy sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The reaction of elected officials and staff criterion : the brownfields redevelopment policy -- The reaction of nongovernment stakeholder groups criterion : environmental cancer and cancer clusters -- Scientist stakeholder criterion : gasoline additives -- Economic criterion : costs of environmental management -- Ethics criterion : international trade in pesticides and genetically modified crops -- Time and flexibility criterion : nuclear power revisited -- Policy measurement and assessment tools -- Decision-making and communication tools.

Sommario/riassunto

Pressing environmental challenges are frequently surrounded with stakeholders on all sides of the issues. Opinions expressed by government agencies, the private sector, special interests, nonprofit communities, and the media, among others can quickly cloud the dialogue, leaving one to wonder how policy decisions actually come about. In Environmental Policy Analysis and Practice, Michael R. Greenberg cuts through the complicated layers of bureaucracy, science, and the public interest to show how all policy considerations can be broken down according to six specific factors: 1) the reaction of elected



government officials, 2) the reactions of the public and special interests, 3) knowledge developed by scientists and engineers, 4) economics, 5) ethical imperatives, and 6) time pressure to make a decision. The book is organized into two parts, with the first part defining and illustrating each one of these criteria. Greenberg draws on examples such as nuclear power, pesticides, brownfield redevelopment, gasoline additives, and environmental cancer, but focuses on how these subjects can be analyzed rather than exclusively on the issues themselves. Part two goes on to describe a set of over twenty tools that are used widely in policy analysis, including risk assessment, environmental impact analysis, public opinion surveys, cost-benefit analysis, and others. These tools are described and then illustrated with examples from part one. Weaving together an impressive combination of practical advice and engaging first person accounts from government officials, administrators, and leaders in the fields of public health and medicine, this clearly written volume is poised to become a leading text in environmental policy.