Environmental choices : policy responses to Green demands / / Lawrence S. Rothenberg

• Autore: Rothenberg Lawrence S
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : CQ Press, c2002; Washington, D.C. : , : CQ Press, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.70560973
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy - United States; Environmental quality - United States; Environmentalism - United States
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Environmental policy in context: economic demand, political supply Environmental action, environmental caution: the case for government intervention A brief history of U.S. environmental policy National political influences on environmental policy Developing and enforcing environmental policy National or local control: conflicts over environmental federalism Land use agencies: government as landlord The EPA: government as regulator The costs of environmental progress
• Sommario/riassunto: Within a federal system, government agencies and regulatory policies can be fractured -- even at odds with each other. National actors share power with their counterparts in states and localities, as do presidents with Congressional leaders, and bureaucrats with judges. Understanding the broad economic and political contexts of environmental policymaking illuminates the motivations behind policy choices of various interested parties, from the National Park Service and the EPA to environmental activists and members of Congress. Rothenberg utilizes basic economic ideas to provide, not only a fresh look at how the U.S. deals with environmental ills, but a way of thinking about policy making in general.
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental choices
• ISBN: 1-4833-7116-6; 1-4833-4520-3; 1-4833-7115-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008455703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II