Flaws Shark Bites and Emotional Public Policymaking /

• Main Author: Pepin-Neff, Christopher L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Public policy.; Legislative bodies.; Political science.; Political leadership.; Emotions.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Public Policy.; Legislative and Executive Politics.; Governance and Government.; Political Leadership.; Emotion.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

This book examines the policymaking process following highly emotional events. It focuses on the politics of shark "attacks" by looking at policy responses to tragic shark bites in Florida, Australia, and South Africa. The book reviews these cases by identifying the flaws in the human-shar...