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| Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| After Earth Day | |
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| "Frack, Baby, Frack" | |
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| The Environmental Legacy | |
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| The Evolution of American Environmentalism | |
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| Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future | |
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| Plan for the Book | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Making Policy: The Process | |
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| The White House and the Greenhouse | |
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| The Policy Cycle | |
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| Constitutional Constraints | |
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| Incrementalism | |
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| Interest Group Politics | |
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| Environmentalism and Its Critics | |
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| The Public and Environmentalism | |
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| The Special Place of Science in Policy Making | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Making Policy: Institutions and Politics | |
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| The Presidency | |
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| Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance | |
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| The Bureaucracy: Power through Implementation | |
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| The Courts: The Role of Appraisal | |
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| The Political Environment of Environmental Policy Making | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Common Policy Challenges: Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice | |
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| A Toxic Nightmare from Toyland? | |
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| Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science | |
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| What Risks Are Acceptable? | |
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| Risk Assessment Reconsidered: The Precautionary Principle | |
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| Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| More Choice: The Battle over Regulatory Economics | |
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| The Benefit-Cost Debate | |
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| Regulation Strategies: Command and Control versus the Marketplace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Command and Control in Action: Air and Water Pollution Regulation | |
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| The Political Anatomy of Command-and-Control Regulation | |
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| Regulating Air Quality | |
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| Regulating Water Quality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances | |
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| An Ambiguous Inheritance | |
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| Federal Law: Regulation from the Cradle to the Grave? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Energy: America's Energy Politics in Transformation | |
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| The Foundation: A Fossil Fuel Nation | |
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| Natural Gas and the Gas "Boom" | |
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| Coal: The Promise and Perils of Abundance | |
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| Fossil Fuel Alternatives: Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 635 Million Acres of Politics: The Battle for Public Lands | |
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| The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Public Land Politics at a Boil | |
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| A History of Contested Access | |
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| The Public Domain | |
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| Conflicts over Multiple Use | |
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| The Pluralistic Politics of the Public Lands | |
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| The Fate of the Forests | |
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| How Much Wilderness Is Enough? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Climate Change, Domestic Politics, and the Challenge of Global Policy Making | |
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| The Contested Science of Atmospheric Warming | |
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| The Domestic Setting of Climate Change Politics | |
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| Transboundary Environmental Politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |