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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797964503321

Autore

Conant James K.

Titolo

The life cycles of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency : 1970-2035 / / James K. Conant and Peter J. Balint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-020373-0

0-19-755949-2

0-19-020372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

363.705610973

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Environmental Politics, Policy, and Administration in the United States; 2. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Rise of Environmental Protection in the 1970s, and the Political Drama of the Next Three Decades; 3. Life Cycle Models of Organizations; 4. The Council on Environmental Quality: 1970-2010; 5. The Environmental Protection Agency: 1970-2010; 6. Comparing the Paths of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency and Assessing the Life Cycle Models

7. The Future of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency: 2015-2035Postscript: Sustainability and the Environmental Protection Agency; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, James K. Conant and Peter J. Balint examine the trajectory of environmental policy and administration in the United States by looking at the development of the CEQ and EPA. They look at changes in budgetary and staffing resources over time as well as the role of quality of leadership as key indicators of capacity and vitality. As well, they make correlations between the agencies' fortunes and various



social, political, and economic variables.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779738203321

Autore

Symington Paul

Titolo

On determining what there is [[electronic resource] ] : the identity of ontological categories in Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe / / Paul Symington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2010

ISBN

3-11-032248-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

EIDE : foundations of ontology ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

230.6

Soggetti

Ontology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: AQUINAS ON ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY OF ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES -- CHAPTER TWO: SCOTUS'S CRITICISM OF AQUINAS'S DERIVATION OF THE CATEGORIES -- CHAPTER THREE: A RECONSIDERATION AND DEFENSE OF AQUINAS'S POSITION -- CHAPTER FOUR: LOGICAL SYNTAX AND LOWE'S FOUR-CATEGORY ONTOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Generally, categories are understood to express the most general features of reality. Yet, since categories have this special status, obtaining a correct list of them is difficult. This question is addressed by examining how Thomas Aquinas establishes the list of categories through a technique of identifying diversity in how predicates are per se related to their subjects. A sophisticated critique by Duns Scotus of this position is also examined, a rejection which is fundamentally grounded in the idea that no real distinction can be made from a logical one. It is argued Aquinas's approach can be rehabilitated in that real distinctions are possible when specifically considering per se modes of predication. This discussion between Aquinas and Scotus bears fruit in a contemporary context insofar as it bears upon, strengthens, and seeks to correct E. J. Lowe's four-category ontology view regarding the identity and relation of the categories.