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Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues, Donald D. Adams and Walter P. Page (eds.), (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), 521 pp.

Acid Deposition: Environmental, Economic, and Policy Issues is a comprehensive, if not exhaustive, examination of acid deposition and its effects on endangered species and habitat preservation, and water resources. This work constitutes an expanded version of the proceedings of the Conference on Acid Deposition: Environmental and Economic Impact, held in Plattsburgh, New York in 1983.

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought, Terry L. Anderson, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 121pp.

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought is an examination of what is asserted to be an imminent water crisis in light of a new resource economics framework. Appropriation doctrine and privatization is examined.

Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and Environmental Management, Richard L. Stroup and John A. Baden, (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1983), 137 pp.

Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and Environmental Management is an examination of environmental management from the perspective that property rights are the underlying value and the main issue to be addressed in the exploitation of natural resources.

Halting the Degradation of Natural Resources: Is there a Role for Rural Communities?, Jean- Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau, (Oxford: Clarencon Press, 1996), 407 pp.

Halting the Degradation of Natural Resources: Is there a Role for Rural Communities? is an examination of the guidelines and principles which would make the local-level management of natural resources efficient, equitable and preferable to global management.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California, William Blomquist, (California: ICS Press, 1992), 402 pp.

Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California is an examination of the governance of groundwater in California. The issues addressed are common to all watersheds in the Western United States.

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation, Robert Boardman, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 213pp.

Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation is an examination of the problem of pesticide use in agriculture and the difficulties of achieving international regulation of same.

Economic-Ecological Modeling, Leon C. Braat & Wal F. J. Van Lierop, (eds)(New York: Elsevier Science Publishers B V, 1987), 329.

Economic-Ecological Modeling is an examination of the theory, methods and practice of environmental modeling. The work is concluded with a discussion of the use of modeling in policy-making. This work is volume sixteen of Studies in Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's Environmental Response, Daniel D. Chiras, (Colorado: Johnson Books, 1990), 206 pp.

Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's Environmental Response is an examination of the philosophical change which must take place in order for environmentalism to become the mainstream ethic.

Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests, Albert M. Church, (Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1982), 221pp.

Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests concerns the competition between private parties for the ownership and control of natural resources and the profits derived therefrom.

The Politics of Nuclear Waste, E. William Colglazier, Jr. (ed. ), (New York: Pergamon Press, 1982) 264 pp.

The Politics of Nuclear Waste examines the development of nuclear waste management policy. These articles are the result of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies' November 1979 conference on "the social, political and institutional conflicts over permanent siting of radioactive wastes."

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, Committee on Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems, Water Science and Technology Board and Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources National Research Council, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 147pp.

Irrigation-induced Water Quality Problems: What can be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience is an examination of the problem of irrigation-induced water quality problems using the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge and its build-up of toxic levels of selenium as an example. This work examines the scientific and institutional dimensions of the problem and offers methods for resolution.

For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Herman E. Daly & John B. Cobb Jr., with contributions by Clifford W. Cobb, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 476pp.

For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future is an examination of the possibility of using contemporary economic theory to structure an economy which is supportive of community, the environment and a sustainable future.

Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations, Avner de-Shalit, (London: Routledge, 1995) 155pp.

Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations is a philosophical examination of how future generations must be considered in the formulation of contemporary environmental policy. de-Shalit offers one approach for structuring an obligation to future generations.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings, ed. David F. Paulsen and Robert B. Denhardt, (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973), 251pp.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings is an examination of the relationship between environmental policy-making and the public policy process with specific consideration of both air and water pollution.

Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, R. Dorfman & N. S. Dorfman (eds.), (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1972), 426pp.

Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings is a selection of readings which focus on the general topics of: formal analysis of the applicability of economic theory to environmental problems, policies for environmental protection grounded in an economic approach, support for the assertion that the roots of environmental degradation lie in the conflict between environmental protection and economic growth, and finally measuring costs and benefits of environmental goods.

Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria, Frank Fischer & John Forester, (eds), (California: Sage Publications, 1987), 284pp.

Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria is an examination of the ways in which values can be implicit in policy. The work examines principles, practices, biases and the normative theoretical foundations of public policy.

Application of Biotechnology: Environmental and Policy Issues, John R. Fowle III, (ed), (Colorado: Westview Press, 1987), 224 pp.

Application of Biotechnology: Environmental and Policy Issues examines: the historical context of the development of biotechnology , ecological/environmental release issues and the future of biotechnology. Many of the papers contained in the book were presented at the 1985 symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice, A. Myrick Freeman III, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 272pp.

The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice is primarily a market approach to the resolution of the problem of environmental degradation. That is, the author offers economic reasons and justifications for improving the natural environment.

Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, and Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Trade- offs in Public Policy Analysis, ed. John Martin Gillroy, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1993), 180 pp.

Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, and Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Trade- offs in Public Policy Analysis is an examination of the effects of values on public policy.

Political Theory and Public Policy, Robert E. Goodin, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 249 pp.

Political Theory and Public Policy is an examination of the role of political theory and its foundation in moral theory in the formation and justification of public policy.

Decisions by the Numbers, Dipak K. Gupta, (Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994), 525pp.

Decisions by the Numbers is a thorough examination of the methods, justification and application of quantitative analysis as a basis for public policy decision-making. The assumptions underlying Dipak Gupta's work are: quantitative analysis is objective analysis, and objective analysis is what is needed to make the best decisions in public policy administration. This work is useful for decision-makers who rely on quantitative analysis to make decisions or must understand administrative procedures which rely upon such analysis.

Natural Resource Policy-Making in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution, William Ascher and Robert Healy, (North Carolina: 1990), 210pp.

Natural Resource Policy-Making in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution while specifically addressing developing countries, offers an approach which (with some modification) is applicable to policy-making in the developed countries. To paraphrase the authors; the book attempts to use systematic analysis to confront and dissect the complexities of natural resource policy-making. The work draws heavily on the work of Harold Lasswell.

Backs to the Future: U S Government Policy Toward Environmentally Critical Technology, George R. Heaton, Jr., Robert Repetto, Rodney Sobin, (Washington DC: World Resources Institute, 1992), 34 pp.

Backs to the Future: U S Government Policy Toward Environmentally Critical Technology is a government report which is an examination of: the national technology policy, the criteria for and a list of, environmentally critical technologies. Also addressed are private and public support for such technologies.

The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics, Hazel Henderson, (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981), 411pp.

The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics, is a criticism of economic theory as a basis for policy-making and calls for a re-conceptualization of environmental problems.

Wilderness Economics and Policy, Lloyd C. Irland, (Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1979), 218 pp.

Wilderness Economics and Policy is a brief examination of the public mandate for preservation and governmental attempts at implementation. It is a more comprehensive examination of the economics of preservation.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management, Sheldon Kamieniecki, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), 126 pp.

Public Representation in Environmental Policy-making: The Case of Water Quality Management is the text of a research project undertaken to assess public participation in environmental policy-making and political leaders' predictions of citizens' views.

American Ethics and Public Policy, Abraham Kaplan, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), 110pp.

American Ethics and Public Policy is a philosophical examination of the relationship between ethics and public policy which refers one to standard philosophical works.

People Centered Development: Contributions toward Theory and Planning Frameworks, ed. David C. Korten and Rudi Klauss, (Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 1984), 333pp.

People Centered Development: Contributions toward Theory and Planning Frameworks is an examination of the gradual shift from production centered development to human-centered development, with particular attention paid to the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of human-centered development.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis, T. R. Lakshmanan & P. Nijkamp, (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1980), 198 pp.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis is, as the title suggests, an examination to interactions. More specifically, the authors examine the role of modeling in the formulation of environmental policy.

Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence, James P. Lester(ed), (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1989), 398.

Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence is an examination of the relationship between politics and environmental policy. The work is a collection of works by multiple authors.

The Policy Making Process, Charles E. Lindblom, (New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1968), 120 pp.

The Policy Making Process is an examination of the process of policy- making from a political science perspective. It focuses upon analytic policy-making and the role of power therein.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change, James McEvoy III and Thomas Dietz (eds), (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1977), 316 pp.

Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences for Environmental Change is an examination of the social consequences caused by environmental changes. Specifically, the authors address the social impacts in the fields of: law, demography, land use, economics, and transportation.

Environmental Law and Policy, Peter S. Menell and Richard B. Stewart, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994), 1213 pp.

Environmental Law and Policy is a comprehensive examination of themultiplicity of legal and policy issues surrounding environmental degradation. It explores the economic and common law foundations for statutory and policyapproaches to environmental degradation mitigation efforts.

Public lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management, Robert H. Nelson, (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1995), 364pp.

Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management is an examination of scientific management as it has, or more accurately has not, been applied to public lands. It offers a history of the changing conceptions of public lands and offers a re- conceptualization for future use.

Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences, ed. Roger G. Noll, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 398 pp.

Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences is an examination of the effect which the social sciences (excluding the effects of economics) has had, historically on regulatory policy.

Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World, John O'Neill, (New York: Routledge, 1993), 219pp.

Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World is a philosophical examination of what the author proposes to be an adequate foundation for policy- making and political decisions about environmental issues. The author argues for a relationship between the intrinsic value of the natural world and human well-being.

Reforming the Forest Service, Randal O'Toole, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 237 pp.

Reforming the Forest Service is an examination of the need for reform in the Forest Service through consideration of the failures of the Forest Service and remedies for those failures.

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Elinor Ostrom, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 270 pp.

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action is an examination of the nature of the commons, and the evolution and development of self- organization and self-governance of those commons.

Regional Conflict and National Policy, ed. Kent A. Price, (Washington, D. C., Resources for the Future, Inc., 1982), 135 pp.

Regional Conflict and National Policy is a careful examination of the history of regional conflict in the areas of energy and natural resource development and its effect on national policy in these areas.

Fragmentation and Integration in State Environmental Management, Barry G. Rabe, (Washington DC: The Conservation Foundation, 1986), 164 pp.

Fragmentation and Integration in State Environmental Management is an examination of: the need for, and State attempts at, integrated environmental management. The author also offers his assessment of the future of integrated environmental management.

The Power of Public Ideas, Robert B. Reich, (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988), 251 pp.

The Power of Public Ideas is an examination of the creation and maintenance, and governmental expression, of public ideas and their effect on policy-making in a democracy. It is a collection of essays written by various authors.

Water Law, Planning and Policy: Cases and Materials, Joseph L. Sax, (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1968), 508 pp.

Water Law, Planning and Policy: Cases and Materials is an examination of the planning for, and use of, water for any human purpose, and the quality issues surrounding such use in the light of two legal regimes in water law.

The Social Response to Environmental Risk: Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty, Daniel W. Bromley & Kathleen Segerson (eds), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992), 206pp.

The Social Response to Environmental Risk: Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty is an overview of the perceptions and valuation of environmental risk. This work is heavily influenced by economic theory.

Environmental Policy Under Reagan's Executive Order: The Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis, V Kerry Smith, (North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984), 259pp.

Environmental Policy Under Reagan's Executive Order: The Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis is an examination of the history, implementation and the regulatory impact of Executive Order 12291.

A Primer for Policy Analysis, E. Stokey and R. Zeckhauser, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company Inc., 1978), 356 pp.

A Primer for Policy Analysis is built on the implicit assumption that policy-making decisions are economic decisions. Thus, it is an exposition of economic theory applied to policy-making.

Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, Fourth edition, A. D. Tarlock, J. N. Corbridge, Jr., D. H. Getches, (New York: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1993), 930pp.

Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, as the title states, is a casebook in water resource law. As such its focus is upon the adjudication of water resource laws and recent litigation regarding same.

Environmental Policy in the 1990s: Toward a New Agenda, N.J. Vig & M.E. Kraft (eds), (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990), 418pp.

Environmental Policy in the 1990s: Toward a New Agenda is a collection of readings and offers an overview of the change in environmental policy from the 1970s to the 1990s. It looks at the current public policy dilemmas, dispute resolution, global environmental policy and the philosophical basis for environmental politics.

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