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Author : John Baden
Release : 1981
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Bureaucracy Vs. Environment by : John Baden
Download or read book Bureaucracy Vs. Environment written by John Baden. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes the assumption that bureaucrats can best manage the environment
Author : John Baden
Release : 1981
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Book Synopsis Bureaucracy Vs. Environment by : John Baden
Download or read book Bureaucracy Vs. Environment written by John Baden. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard W. Waterman
Release : 2004-03-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Bureaucrats, Politics And the Environment by : Richard W. Waterman
Download or read book Bureaucrats, Politics And the Environment written by Richard W. Waterman. This book was released on 2004-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bureaucracy in the United States has a hand in almost all aspects of our lives, from the water we drink to the parts in our cars. For a force so influential and pervasive, however, this body of all nonelective government officials remains an enigmatic, impersonal entity. The literature of bureaucratic theory is rife with contradictions and mysteries. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment attempts to clarify some of these problems. The authors surveyed the workers at two agencies: enforcement personnel from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and employees of the New Mexico Environment Department. By examining what they think about politics, the environment, their budgets, and the other institutions and agencies with which they interact, this work puts a face on the bureaucracy and provides an explanation for its actions.
Author : Randy T. Simmons
Release : 2016
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nature Unbound by : Randy T. Simmons
Download or read book Nature Unbound written by Randy T. Simmons. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature? Developing answers to these questions and developing implications of those answers are our purposes in this book. Two themes guide us--political ecology and political entrepreneurship. Combining these two concepts, which we develop in some detail, leads us to recognize that sometimes in their original design and certainly in their implementation, major U.S. environmental laws are more about opportunism and ideology than good management and environmental improvement. Will America enact environmental policies based on sound principles? The authors of Nature Unbound are cautiously optimistic.
Author : David Demortain
Release : 2020-01-21
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Science of Bureaucracy by : David Demortain
Download or read book The Science of Bureaucracy written by David Demortain. This book was released on 2020-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment–risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.
