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US Environmental Policy in Action

Practice and Implementation

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Sara R. Rinfret
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  2. Michelle C. Pautz
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  • Detailed, comprehensive approach to the environmental policy process
  • Structured to work for majors and non-majors alike, focusing on the functional principals of the policy and the actors involved

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Environmental Policy in Practice

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 1-11

  3. Contextualizing Environmental Policy

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 13-42

  4. The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 43-71

  5. Official Actors in the Policy Process

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 73-103

  6. Unofficial Actors in the Policy Process

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 105-127

  7. Translating Vague Statutes into Rules and Regulations

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 129-147

  8. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Implementing Environmental Policy

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 149-178

  9. Is It Working? Evaluating Environmental Policy

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 179-201

  10. Understanding Environmental Policy from the Ground up

    • Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
    Pages 203-216

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-250
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About this book

US Environmental Policy: A Practical Approach to Understanding Implementation provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in an era of congressional gridlock. With a focus grounded in the front-lines of environmental policy, readers are afforded examples of how environmental policy works through case studies and voices sections, thereby enriching the text's practical approach to understanding contemporary American environmental policy.

About the authors

Sara R. Rinfret is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Montana, USA. She co-authored The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators with Michelle Pautz.

Michelle C. Pautz is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Dayton, USA. She is co-author of The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators with Sara Rinfret.

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