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Understanding Environmental Administration and Law, 3rd Edition

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ISBN-10: 1597260363

ISBN-13: 9781597260367

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Susan J. Buck

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Understanding Environmental Administration and Law provides an engaging, introductory overview of environmental policy. Author Susan J. Buck explores the process through which policy is made, the political environment in which it is applied, and the statutory and case laws that are critical to working within the regulatory system. This revised and expanded third edition adds case studies that help bring the subject to life and includes new material on * the Bush Administration and its approach to administering environmental laws * the continuing evolution of environmentalism and the changing role of environmental regulation in the United States * the development and implementation of…    
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Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
The American Legal System
Sources of Law
The Common Law
Statutes and Ordinances
Rules and Regulations
Cover Crops
The Constitution
Judicial Decisionmaking
Statutory Interpretation
Judicial Precedents
Application of Constitutional Principles
Bird's Eye View
Federalism
Case Study: Tangier Sound (1982)
Suggested Reading
Notes
Environmentalism in the United States
Beginnings: The 1960s
National Environmental Policy Act
The Environmental Decade: The 1970s
Environmental Action in the 1980s
Sealing the Century: The 1990s
George W. Bush
Challenges to Old Environmentalism
Suggested Reading
Notes
The Public Policy Process
Types of Public Policy
Distributive Policy
Protective Regulatory Policy
Redistributive Policy
Competitive Regulatory Policy
The Public Policy Process: Introduction
Agenda Setting
Systemic and Institutional Agendas
Reaching the Institutional Agenda
Policy Formulation and Legitimation
Problem Definition
Formulation
Touch-and-Go
Legitimation
Implementation
Bureaucratic Resources
Administrative Discretion
Variables Affecting Implementation
Implementing Environmental Policy
Evaluation
Suggested Reading
Notes
Legal Concepts in Environmental Law
Understanding Case Law
Briefing a Case
Example of Law School Brief
Due Process
Procedural Due Process
Substantive Due Process
The "Due Process Explosion"
Standing
Animal Watchers Abroad
Common Law: Nuisance, Property, and Public Trust
Nuisance
Shake, Rattle, and...Boom
Property
Origins of Land Use Control
Eminent Domain
Playing Chicken
Zoning
Regulation versus Taking
Redistributing Paradise
Public Trust Doctrine
Suggested Reading
Notes
Pollution Control and Hazardous and Toxic Substances
The Administrative Procedure Act
Rulemaking
Types of Rules
Rulemaking Procedures
Benefit-Cost Analysis
Administrative Adjudication
Judicial Review
Air Pollution
Buying the Right to Pollute
Blowing Smoke
Water Pollution
Moving Violations
Hazardous and Toxic Substances
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1947
Birds and Birdies
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976)
The Foolish Trucker
Toxic Substances Control Act (1976)
Superfund (1980) and SARA (1986)
Dead Batteries
The Future
Suggested Reading
Notes
Managing Wildlife and Public Lands
Federal-State Cooperative Wildlife Management
The Rise and Fall of the State Ownership Doctrine
Treaty Power
Federal Property Power
Commerce Clause
The Price of Hunting Elk
Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration (Pittman-Robertson) Act
Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration (Dingell-Johnson) Act
Other Federal-State Programs
Federal Wildlife Programs
Regulating the Taking of Wildlife
Migratory Bird Legislation
Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
High Wire Act
Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act
Who Owns the Burros?
Regulating Commerce in Wildlife
Conservation of Endangered Species
Don't Feed the Bears
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Federal Acquisition and Management of Wildlife Habitat
National Wildlife Refuge System
Multiple-Use Lands
Special Purpose Lands
Public Lands
Acquisition
Disposal
Reservation
Custodial and Intensive Management
Consultation and Confrontation
Suggested Reading
Notes
International Environmental Policy and Law
International Organizations
The United Nations
Nongovernmental Organizations
International and Global Commons
Property Rights and Regimes
Oceans
Living Resources
Fishy Tales
Marine Pollution
Atmosphere
Acid Deposition
Ozone Depletion
Climate Change
Suggested Reading
Notes
Afterword
Finding Case Law
Glossary
Acronyms
List of Cases
Legislation
Bibliography
Index