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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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 | |