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Toward Sustainable Communities, Second Edition Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy

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ISBN-10: 0262512297

ISBN-13: 9780262512299

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Daniel A. Mazmanian, Michael E. Kraft, D. Mazmanian, Michael E. Kraft, D. Mazmanian

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This analysis of U.S. environmental policy offers a conceptual framework that serves as a valuable roadmap to the array of laws, programs, and approaches developed over the last four decades. Combining case studies and theoretical discussion, the book views environmental policy in the context of three epochs: the rise of command-and-control federal regulation in the 1970s, the period of efficiency-based reform efforts that followed, and the more recent trend toward sustainable development and integrated approaches at local and regional levels. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the new approaches and places these experiments within the larger framework of an emerging trend toward…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Daniel A. Mazmanian is Professor of Public Policy at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.

Michael E. Kraft is professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental Policy and Politics, 6th ed. (2015) and coauthor of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel. In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy: New Directions in the 21st Century, 9th ed. (2016), with Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (2007) and…