Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Mazmanian, Daniel A. [Editor]; Kraft, Michael E. [Editor]; Kamieniecki, Sheldon [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0262631946 / ISBN 13: 9780262631945

Published by Mit Pr, 1999

Seller Inventory # 0262631946-3-34649014

Synopsis:

This book reviews and assesses environmental policy over the past three decades primarily in the United States but with implications for other nations. The editors place U.S. environmental policy within the framework of the transition from 1970s-era policies that emphasized federally controlled regulation, through a period of criticism and efficiency-based reform efforts, to an emerging era of sustainability in which decisionmaking takes place increasingly at the local and regional levels. The book looks at what does and does not work and how social, economic, and environmental goals can be integrated through policy strategies grounded in the concept of sustainability.Toward Sustainable Communities uses six case studies to illustrate innovative strategies in specific policy areas: air pollution control, water pollution control, land use, transportation, urban redevelopment, and regional ecosystem management. The contributors assess such new approaches as the use of market incentives and collaborative decisionmaking and place these experiments in the larger framework of the still-evolving transition to community sustainability.

About the Authors:

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 of Political Science and Public Affairs Emeritus and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Sheldon Kamieniecki is Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author or editor of many other books.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition ...
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good