Better environmental policy studies : how to design and conduct more effective analysis / Lawrence E. Susskind, Ravi K. Jain, Andrew O. Martyniuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Susskind, Lawrence.

Contributor:

Jain, Ravi, 1935-

Martyniuk, Andrew O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States--Evaluation.

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--United States--Evaluation--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental policy studies commissioned by government agencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action.

Contents:

""About Island Press""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Ch 1: Introduction""; ""Setting the Stage""; ""Conducting Policy Studies""; ""Ch 2: The Conventional Approach to Environmental Policy Studies""; ""How Environmental Policy Studies are Usually Done""; ""The Connection Between Policy Studies and Poliy Making""; ""Comments on the Conventional Approach""; ""Ch 3: How Environmental Policy Studies Can Be Used Effectively""; ""Six Effective Policy Studies""; ""The ""Uses"" of Effective Policy Studies""; ""The Studies and Their ""Uses""""; ""the Challenges""

""Concluding Remarks""""Ch 4: How Policy Studies Should be Organized""; ""Six Organizational Tasks""; ""A Look in the Rearview Mirror""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Ch 5: Methods and Roles of Environmental Policy Studies""; ""Approaches to Policy Studies""; ""New Theories: Post-Positivist Participatory Approaches to Policy Analysis""; ""Beyond Participation

Networks, Coalitions, and Communities""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Ch 6: Rethinking the Choice of Methods for Policy Analysis""; ""Analytical Methods""; ""Rhetorical Methods""; ""Process Methods""

""Putting It All Together: The Issue of Chlorinated Organic Compounds Revisited""""Enhancing the Interplay of Theory and Practice""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Ch 7: International Perspectives""; ""What We Think We Know""; ""Global Warming""; ""Genetically Modified Foods""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Appendix A

National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Report Review Guidelines""; ""Acronyms""; ""References""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""; ""Island Press Board of Directors 2001""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-59726-839-9

1-4175-3978-X

OCLC:

613398176