Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY series in International Environmental Policy and Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791433307 ISBN 13: 9780791433300

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Presents alternative and often opposing viewpoints on the major national and international environmental controversies that will be with us well into the twenty-first century.

As a contribution to public policy and to help educate students about natural resource issues, this book identifies the likely "hot spots" of environmental policy and presents alternative and often opposing points of view on the major controversies that are likely to be with us well into the next century. Among the topics covered are comparative risk assessment; market incentives in environmental regulation; environmental justice; public versus private management of public lands; international trade and sustainable development; and the relationship between national security and environmental protection.

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About the Author

Sheldon Kamieniecki is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of Environmental Politics in the International Arena and coeditor of Controversies in Environmental Policy, both published by SUNY Press. George A. Gonzalez is a lecturer at San Jose State University. Robert O. Vos is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791433307
• ISBN 13: 9780791433300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 367
• Editor: Kamieniecki Sheldon, Gonzalez George A., Vos Robert O.