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Introduction
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Topics
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 | Introductions |
| Review Syllabus and Assignments |
| What is an environmentalist? |
| Is the environment different than
other social policies? |
| What is or should be the
relationship between science, values, and public policy? |
| What are some of the challenges of making and implementing environmental policy? |
| Progress has been made, much remains to be done, but does society want to pay for it? |
| What are some of the proposals for
reforming the environmental governance system and how come things never
seem to change? |
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Readings
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L: Ch. 1, 2 |
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RES 1
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R: Ch. 1 |
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Lecture Notes
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| View or print lecture notes as a adobe acrobat file |
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Web Resources
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| The following agency websites may prove
useful as we move through the semester. |
| 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
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| 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) |
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Book's that Might Be of Interest
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