Managing the Environmental Crisis: Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration - Softcover

Henning, Daniel H.; Mangun, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082230967X ISBN 13: 9780822309673

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1960

Synopsis

Second edition
With a new foreword by Lynton Keith Caldwell

In Managing the Environmental Crisis William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning provide a balanced and comprehensive guide to the management of complex environmental and natural resource policy issues. Taking into account new developments, trends, and issues that have arisen in recent years, the authors begin with the recognition, often overlooked, that it is not the environment that needs to be managed but human action relating to the environment.
The authors review issues associated with a range of environmental policy concerns, including energy considerations, renewable and non renewable resource management, pollution control, wilderness management, and urban and regional policy. The history of these issues, recent actions pertaining to their management, difficulties associated with their continued presence, and the consequences of a failure to address these concerns are explored. Though focused on specific political issues, Mangun and Henning direct their attention to two large-scale trends—globalization and the political polarization of the environmental movement. At the level of the decision-making process, the incorporation of values—specifically addressed from multicultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives—is also discussed. International in scope, the book provides descriptions of the roles of both governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the formulations and implementation of national and global environmental policy.
This thoroughly revised second edition discusses various successes in the arenas of environmental cooperation and management strategy while pointing to the new challenges that have emerged in the last decade.

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Review

"[A]n interesting and worthwhile history of American administrative responses to public concerns about the environment. . . . It remains a useful book."
--Mary Louise McAllister, "Environments"

"[A] valuable text for students and administrators. The second edition preserves the original approach while incorporating a number of major changes in environmental administration in the past decade."
--Robert J. Cerny, "Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management"

"[The] new edition . . . updates the earlier work with topical discussions of issues and trends that emerged in the 1990s. . . . Educators in the public policy and management field will find this book a useful introduction for students of US natural resource policy."
--J. J. Winebrake, "Choice"

About the Author

William R. Mangun is Professor of Political Science at East Carolina University. His books include American Fish and Wildlife Policy, Public Policy Issues in Wildlife Management, and The Public Administration of Environmental Policy. Daniel H. Henning is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Environmental Affairs at Montana State University and author of Environmental Policy and Administration and A Dove in the Forest.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082230967X
• ISBN 13: 9780822309673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400