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Governing is Choosing: But How Do We Choose and Who Gets to Choose?

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Topics

Political ecosystem: governance vs. government
Federalism and determining who gets to set policy
Risk assessment: using science to inform decisions but is perception more important than reality
C-B analysis: using economics to inform decisions
Garbage-can model of decision making and the importance of argument and persuasion in the political process
Choosing policy instruments: command and control, markets, education, voluntary programs, grant expenditures, etc.
How do you manage the tradeoffs among problems or multiple goals and objectives?
  

Readings

Rosenbaum: 94 - 119; 120 - 153; 154 - 182; 229 - 268
Issue 14 (Reserve)
Handouts - Endangered Species (Grey Wolf & Grizzly Bear)
Handout - ESA (Buffalo)
Handouts - Environmental Federalism
Handouts - Market-Based Approaches
  

Lecture Notes

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Assignments

Issue 14: Municipal Waste: Is Recycling an Environmentally and Economically Sound Waste Management Strategy?
Handouts - Recycling and Waste Disposal
  

Web Resources

Links related to the Issue Memo
EPA's Waste and recycling programs
EPA's Municipal Solid Waste Program
National Council for Science and the Environment
Waste Policy Center
Plastic Resource - information about plastics and recycling
Californian's Against Waste (nonprofit group devoted to waste management issues)
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report on recycling.  Includes the NY Times Magazine article that prompted the report in an Appendix.  
Links to Governmental Organizations and sites
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) and its programs in the Office of Water, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, National Estuary Program, Section 319 NPS Program, Wetlands, Total Maximum Daily Loadings, Ocean and Coastal Protection Division, Air Quality programs, Waste and recycling programs, and other programs
NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), Coastal Zone Management Program, National Marine Sanctuary Program, and National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) and its Division of Water Quality, Division of Water Resources, Division of Coastal Management, Division of Soil and Water Conservation, and other programs
U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and its programs in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and other programs
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), and the Forest Service
President's Council on Environmental Quality
National Council for Science and the Environment
Army Corps of Engineers (COE)
State of North Carolina
City of Wilmington, NC
New Hanover County, NC
Links to Various National or International Advocacy Groups and Nongovernmental Organizations
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Sierra Club
Environmental Defense
Nature Conservancy
Audubon Society
Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG)
Save Our Seas
Coast Alliance
Restore America's Estuaries
Surfrider Foundation
Center for Marine Conservation
River Network
National Shellfisheries Association
Trout Unlimited
Fish Unlimited
World Watch Institute
Alliance for America
Local Government
Biodiversity Conservation Network
Coastal States Organization
National Academy of Public Administration's recent report on various EPA programs
National Association of Counties
International City/County Management Association
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
Water Environment Federation
Local Government Environmental Assistance Network
Links to Various State and Local Advocacy Groups and Nongovernmental Organizations
North Carolina Coastal Federation
   

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