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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: The Rise of Shark "Attack" Discourse
• Chapter Three: Governing Emotion: How to Analyze Emotional Political Situations
• Chapter Four: A Political Frenzy during Florida's 2001 Summer of the Shark
• Chapter Five: Bureaucratic Success and Cape Town's Shark Spotters Program
• Chapter Six: The Rogue Minister & Sydney's Adoption of Aerial Patrols
• Chapter Seven: Reviewing a Framework for Emotions and Public Policy
• Chapter Eight: Considering Sharks from a Post-Jaws Perspective.