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Introduction

  

Topics

Overview of the challenges of making and implementing environmental policy
Environmental governance vs. government: introduction to actors and institutions
Changing capacity of state and local governments
Changing policies: command and control vs. markets vs. voluntary vs. collaborative approaches
Interplay between science, values, and public policy
Are environmental problems fundamentally different than other policy problems
Progress has been made, much remains to be done, but does society want to pay for it?
     

Readings

Rosenbaum: 1 - 43
Hemple: Ch. 1, 1 – 28
   

Lecture Notes

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Web Resources

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)
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
National Academy of Public Administration's recent report on various EPA programs
Coastal States Organization
National Association of Counties
International City/County Management Association
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
Local Government Environmental Assistance Network
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)
World Watch Institute
PLANetWIRE.org (a reporters guide to environmental issues)
   

Book's that Might Be of Interest

Silent Spring
 
 

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