US Environmental Policy in Action

• Main Authors: Rinfret, Sara R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pautz, Michelle C. (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: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political science.; Public policy.; Environmental policy.; United States-Politics and government.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Public Policy.; Environmental Policy.; US Politics.; Environmental Politics.

US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetoric, and escalating debates about federal/state relations....

Table of Contents:

• 1. Environmental Policy in Practice
• 2. The Development and Context of American Environmental Policy
• 3. The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy
• 4. Official Actors in the Policy Process
• 5. The Unofficial Players in the Policy Process
• 6. Translating Vague Statutes into Rules and Regulations
• 7. Implementing Environmental Policy and Regulations: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
• 8. Is it Working? Evaluating Environmental Policy
• 9. The Intersection of Natural Resource and Energy Policy
• 10. The Politics and Policies of Food
• 11. Environmental Policy in Action: Past, Present, and Future.