Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands

by Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483371160
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	225
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lawrence S. Rothenberg is the Max McGraw Distinguished Professor of Management and the Environment at Northwestern University, as well as the co-director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship. He is author of numerous articles in public policy, political economy, and political science as well as three previous books covering a broad set of related issues.

Editorial Reviews

Rothenberg (political science, U. of Rochester) proposes a unifying analytic approach to what many see as the fragmented, contradictory, inconsistent, and rule-bound realm of US environmental policy. It focuses both on the economic determinants of demand for environmental quality, and on the nature of political supply in responding to such demands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)