Understanding Environmental Policy

Steven Cohen

Paper, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13537-5
$29.00 / £17.00

July, 2006
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13536-8
$80.00 / £47.00

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Developing a Framework
Chapter 1. Understanding Environmental Policy
Chapter 2. A Framework for Understanding Environmental Policy
Part II. Applying the Framework
Chapter 3. Why New York City Can't Take Out the Garbage
Chapter 4. Why Companies Let Valuable Gasoline Leak Out of Underground Tanks
Chapter 5. Have We Learned How to Clean Up Toxic Waste Sites, and Can We Afford It?
Chapter 6. Have We Made the Planet Warmer, and If We Have, How Can We Stop?
Part III. Critiquing the Framework
Chapter 7. What Have We Learned from the Framework About Environmental Problems, and What Else Do We Need to Know?
Chapter 8. Conclusions: Improving Environmental Policy
References

Index

Related Subjects

• Ecology & Environmental Sciences
• Environmental Policy

About the Author

Steven Cohen is director of the Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of five other books, including The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in Changing Government (with William Eimicke).

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