Author: David Lewis FeldmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental management
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Environmental Priority Setting in U.S. States and Communities
Author: David Lewis FeldmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental management
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Environmental Priority-Setting in U. S. States and Communities
Author: David Lewis FeldmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788142307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
How do states and local governments decide which environmental problems are most important to them? Are decisions about which environmental problems to address, and how to address them, based on the probable cost of remedies, Federal mandates, public clamor, science, or some combination of these and other factors? This report explores efforts by states and local governments to establish environmental priorities through comparative risk projects. This research is to better understand how priority setting efforts: (1) identify, characterize, rank and prioritized risks: (2) are used to reduce risks or provide amenities: (3) are evaluated; and (4) can be improved to better manage problems.
Toward Safer Food
Author: Sandra Professor HoffmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136524517
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework is the essential scientific basis for better priority setting and resource allocation to improve food safety. Sandra Hoffmann and Michael Taylor bring together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts, to better define the priority setting problem and focus on the scientific and intellectual resources available to construct a risk analysis framework for improving food safety. Toward Safer Food provides a common starting point for discussions about how to construct this framework. The book includes a multi-disciplinary introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological and conceptual approaches on which a system-wide risk analysis framework must draw. It also recognizes that efforts to improve food safety will be influenced by the current institutional context, and provides an overview of the ways in which food safety law and administration affect priority setting. Hoffman and Taylor intend their book to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds. At the same time, they retain the core conceptual sophistication needed to understand the challenges that are inherent in improving food safety. The editors hope that this book will help the U.S. move beyond a call for an integrated, risk-based system toward its actual construction.
Improving Regulation
Author: Paul S. Professor FischbeckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113652262X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Is there potential for a U.S. regulatory system that is more efficient and effective? Or is the future likely to involve 'paralysis by analysis'? Improving Regulation considers the challenges faced by the regulatory system as society and technology change, and our knowledge about the effects of our activities on human and planetary health becomes more sophisticated. While considering the difficulty in linking regulatory design and performance, Improving Regulation makes the case for empowering regulatory analysis. Studying applications as diverse as fire protection, air and water pollution, and genetics, its contributors examine the strategies of different stakeholders in today's complex policymaking environment. With a focus on the behavior of institutions and people, they consider the impact that organizational politics, science, technology, and performance have on regulation. They explore the role of technology in creating and reducing uncertainty, the costs of control, the potential involvement of previously unregulated sectors, and the contentious public debates about fairness and participation in regulatory policy. Arguing that the success of many regulations depends upon their acceptance by the public, Fischbeck, Farrow, and their contributors offer extensive, inductive evidence on the art of regulatory analysis. The resulting book provides 'real world' examples of regulation, and a demonstration of how to synthesize analytical skills with a knowledge of physical and social processes.
The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
Author: Christopher H. ForemanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780815717379
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens? Proponents of "environmental justice" assert that environmental decisionmaking pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious "environmental racism." In the first book-length critique of environmental justice advocacy, Christopher Foreman argues that it has cleared significant political hurdles but displays substantial limitations and drawbacks. Activism has yielded a presidential executive order, management reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous local political victories. Yet the environmental justice movement is structurally and ideologically unable to generate a focused policy agenda. The movement refuses to confront the need for environmental priorities and trade-offs, politically inconvenient facts about environmental health risks, and the limits of an environmental approach to social justice. Ironically, environmental justice advocacy may also threaten the very constituencies it aspires to serve--distracting attention from the many significant health hazards challenging minority and disadvantaged populations. Foreman recommends specific institutional reforms intended to recast the national dialogue about the stakes of these populations in environmental protection.
Environmental Planning for Small Communities
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428904115
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies
Author: Kulsum AhmedPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821367636
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA methodology. It then goes on to analyze how policies are formulated and implemented and proposes a new conceptual framework for conducting SEA of policies thatpotentially could be more useful in influencing decision makers to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into policy formulation and implementation.
Worst Things First
Author: Adam M. FinkelPublisher: Resources for the Future
ISBN: 9780915707768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--National Research Council (NRC) Findings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental laboratories
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
Book Description
Use of Risk Analysis and Cost-benefit Analysis in Setting Environmental Priorities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description