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Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats, John C. Freemuth, (Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1991), 178 pp.

Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats is an examination of external threats to the health and integrity of the ecosystems represented in, and to the whole of individual National Parks. The author examines: the historical view, and the continuing process of legislative and regulatory efforts to protect National parks from these threats.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection, David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Teresa A. Rice, (Colorado: Natural Resources Law Center, 1991, 134 pp.

Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water Quality protection is an examination of the protection of water quality within the western water allocation systems. The authors examine present regulations and laws and recommend approaches for the future.

Water in Crisis, PH Gleick (ed), (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 473pp.

Water in Crisis is an exhaustive examination of global fresh water issues. It is a collection of readings making the work offered on each topic free-standing.

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.

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 Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, Philip K. Howard, (New York: Random House, 1994), 202 pp.

The Death of Common Sense is an analysis of the excesses and deficiencies of regulatory law and bureaucratic process.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy, Henry C. Kenski, (California: Regina Books, 1990), 156 pp.

Saving the Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Ground Water Policy is an examination of the development of groundwater into a political issue and the subsequent Federal, State and local attempts to protect this resource.

The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future, Richard D. Lamm and Michael McCarthy, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982), 33 pp.

The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future is an examination of the change to the American West which has resulted from the economic imperative which has been administrated by the federal government which has, the authors assert, used the West as a colonial possession to be exploited. Richard D. Lamm, one of the authors, is a former governor of Colorado.

The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions, Marc K. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, Stephen R. Thomas, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 304 pp.

The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions is an examination of the creation and evolution of the agency and the affect on it of the Reagan administration. It is forwarded by Congressman Morris K. Udall.

Colorado's Water Resources, League of Women Voters of Colorado, Inc., (Colorado: 1958), 48pp.

Colorado's Water Resources is an examination on Colorado's water supply, the legal bases for its use, the prospect of increasing the supply through engineering and conservative use, and the administration of water and water policy.

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.

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.

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.

Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment, W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead, (California: Sage Publications, 1992), 201 pp.

Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment is an examination of the social, scientific, psychological and economic components of making environmentally sensitive business decisions. In addition, the work offers a "... new strategic decision-making frame-work that will aid in achieving long-term economic success within the limits of the ecosystem."

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 and Natural Resource Economics, T. Tietenberg, (Illinois: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1984), 482pp.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is a comprehensive examination of the application of economics to environmental problems. It addresses basic theoretical economics and its application to: the population problem, depletable and renewable resources, water and air pollution.

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.

International Banks and the Environment - From Growth to Sustainability: An Unfinished Agenda, Raymond F. Mikesell and Larry Williams, (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992), 292 pp.

International Banks and the Environment - From Growth to Sustainability: An Unfinished Agenda is an examination and evaluation of the projects undertaken in the world's poorest countries with funds from Multilateral Development Banks (primarily The World Bank) for the degree to which the projects promote sustainable development.

The Limits of Law: The Public Regulation of Private Pollution, Peter Cleary Yeager, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 351 pp.

The Limits of the Law is an examination of the regulation of water quality. The author asserts that the present method would be improved upon if social and legal regulation were to be integrated.

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