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The Challenge of Global warming, Dean Edward Abrahamson, (ed). (Washington DC: Island Press, 1989), 339pp.

The Challenge of Global warming is a careful examination of the causes, effects and political responses to global warming. It is a collection of free-standing works by multiple authors.

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.

The Clean Water Act: 20 Years Later, Robert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, Diane M Cameron, (Washington DC: Island Press, 1993), 309pp.

The Clean Water Act: 20 Years Later is an evaluation of "...how well the Clean Water Act has achieved its primary goal of restoring and protecting the integrity of the nation's surface waters." The work was published in conjunction with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Politics of Environmental Mediation, Douglas J. Amy, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987) 250 pp.

The Politics of Environmental Mediation, is an examination of the benefits of mediation versus the solutions provided through traditional political institutions.

Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threat, D. J. R. Angell, J. D. Comer, and M. L. N. Wilkinson, (eds), (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 220 pp.

Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threat is an examination of some of the threats to the environment, and the necessity of contributions from individuals, societies, governments and the international community for the success of sustainable development.

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.

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.

Land Degradation and Society, Piers Blaikie & Harold Brookfield, (London: Methuen & Co Inc., 1987), 284pp.

Land Degradation and Society is an examination of the land degradation problem and approaches to mitigation, and the cost involved in such mitigation. Blaikie and Brookfield acknowledge the significant contributions made by multiple authors to whom they attribute several chapters.

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century, Gary D. Weatherford & F. Lee Brown, (eds), (New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 244pp.

New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century is forwarded by Governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona. This work is an examination of the history and persistent issues surrounding the Colorado River which have erupted periodically in litigation and worse. The authors offer an assessment of the issues that those managing the Colorado River will likely be presented with in the coming century.

Can the Government Govern?, John E. Chubb & Paul Peterson, (eds). (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1989), 329pp.

Can the Government Govern? is an examination of the possibility of and effectiveness of the present system of governance in the United States. The work is a collection of contributions by multiple authors.

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.

Acceptable Risk?: Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment, Lee Clarke, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 220 pp.

Acceptable Risk?: Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment is an examination of: whether it is possible to determine what constitutes acceptable risk, how to determine the participants in medical surveillance programs, and how to make decisions through the toxic clean-up process.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law, Third edition, G. C. Coggins, C. F. Wilkinson, J. D. Leshy, (Westbury New York: The Foundation Press Inc., 1993), 1092pp.

Federal Public Land and Resources Law offers a succinct, yet comprehensive history of public lands prefatory to an in depth examination of authority on public lands and legal precedent concerning natural resources.

Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air, Richard E. Cohen, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992), 180pp.

Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air is an examination of the political dimension of environmental problems; specifically air quality. The work specifically addresses the years of the Reagan and Bush presidencies.

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.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law, Carl F. Cranor, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 241 pp.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law is an examination of the need for, and methods of, assessment of toxic substances. The author addresses the legal, legislative, administrative, and tort issues surrounding toxic substances.

Environmental Law and American Business: Dilemmas of Compliance, Joseph F DiMento, (New York: Plenum Press, 1986), 219 pp.

Environmental Law and American Business: Dilemmas of Compliance is an examination of: what constitutes compliance to environmental laws, how businesses accomplish this, and how agencies can assist in achieving compliance.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters, Robert G. Dunbar, (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 270pp.

Forging New Rights in Western Waters is an examination of the history and evolution of Western water rights as a modification of a property right. It begins with the history of the first irrigations in the West and concludes with an examination of the not uncontested right to appropriation.

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach, Robyn Eckersley, (New York: State University of New York Press, 1992), 261 pp.

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach is an examination of the development and nature of ecopolitical thought and an evaluation of where it might be classified with regard to other political thought.

Chain Reaction, Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991), 339 pp.

Chain Reaction analyzes the American political scene of the past twenty-five years, focusing on the role that race, rights and tax issues have played in the disintegration of the liberal coalition and the rise of conservativism.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma, Mary R. English, (New York: Quorum Books, 1992), 267pp.

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma is an examination of the components of authority, trust, risk, justice and legitimacy in the siting of low- level radioactive waste facilities. It offers a brief history of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLWPA) and an in-depth examination of the act itself.

The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda, Amitai Etzioni, (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 323 pp.

The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda, Amitai Etzioni, (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 323 pp.

Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma, Harold C. Barnett, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 334 pp.

Toxic Debts is a political economy of the Superfund, created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. It argues that Superfund has failed due to conflict over who will pay the"toxic debt, " that is, the cost of cleaning up hazardous waste sites, and conflict between environmental and economic interests.

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.

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.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism, John G. Francis and Richard Ganzel, (eds), (New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984), 306 pp.

Western Public Lands: The Management of Natural Resources in a Time of Declining Federalism is an examination of the current policies for the management of public lands in the Western United States. This is followed by consideration of selected natural resource issues.

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.

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.

Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards, Michael S. Greve &Fred L. Smith, Jr. (eds). (New York: Praeger, 1992), 201pp.

Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards is an examination of the "... use and abuse of environmental regulation for political and economic objectives that have little or nothing to do with the environment". It is a collection of the works of multiple authors.

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.

Culture of Complaint: A Passionate Look into the Ailing Heart of America, Robert Hughes, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 209 pp.

Culture of Complaint: A Passionate Look into the Ailing Heart of America is an analysis of contemporary American culture, and of current trends in politics, academics, and art. This work arose from a series of lectures offered at the New York Library in 1992.

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.

The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future, Michael Jacobs, Massachusetts: Pluto Press, 1991), 304pp.

The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future is an examination of the objectives of Sustainable Development, a program to achieve these objectives and a method for measuring its effectiveness.

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley, William L. Kahrl, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 574pp.

Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley while ostensibly concerning California water issues inapplicable to water issues in the Western United States in general. This work is an examination of both the politics and causes of the problems surrounding water resource allocation.

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.

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 New American Political System, Anthony King, (ed), (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978), 395 pp.

The New American Political System is an examination of change in the political system of the United States since the New Deal era of the 1930s. The editor asserts that the impetus for much of this change can be located in the events of the 1960s and 1970s.

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.

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.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation, Karen T. Litfin, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 245pp.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation is an examination of the role of scientific knowledge in both world politics and the role of power in scientific knowledge. This work also explores the role of such knowledge in the Montreal Protocol and in efforts to mitigate the ozone problem.

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.

The Politics of Regulatory change: A Tale of Two Agencies, Richard A. Harris & Sidney M. Milkis, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 324pp.

The Politics of Regulatory change: A Tale of Two Agencies is the result ofin-depth interviews with a long list of federal agencies and interest group employees concerning the change in regulatory politics from the New Deal era of the 1930s to the reform movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

Agriculture and the Environment, Tim T. Phipps, Peirre R. Crosson, and Kent A. Price, (eds), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1986), 295 pp.

Agriculture and the Environment is a collection of papers which were presented at the Conference on Agriculture and the Environment in 1986, sponsored by the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy at Resources for the Future. This work addresses environmental problems confronting agriculture and environmental policy analysis as it relates to agriculture.

Public Knowledge and Environmental Politics in Japan and the United States, John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Taketsugu Tsurutani, andTakematsu Abe, (Colorado: Westview Press, 1989), 220 pp.

Public Knowledge and Environmental Politics in Japan and the United States is an examination of the relationship between public knowledge and the multiple variables affecting it, and the relationship of knowledge to environmental politics.

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities: The NIMBY Syndrome, (New York: Auburn House, 1991), 172 pp.

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities: The NIMBY Syndrome is a careful examination of the political, social, cultural and psychological components of siting hazardous waste treatment facilities.

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.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner, (New York: Viking, 1986), 564 pp.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a history and an examination of the importance of water to the Western United States. The author addresses water use issues from the earliest settlement of the West by Europeans to the contemporary problem of increasing salinity in the Colorado River Basin.

Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law, David H. Rosenbloom and Richard D. Schwartz, (eds), (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1994), 560 pp.

Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law is an examination: of the evolution of the administrative state, trends in regulatory administration, and regulatory enforcement. The work is a collection of the works of multiple authors.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change, Ian H. Rowlands, (New York: Manchester University Press, 1995), 267 pp.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change is an examination of the political nature of the theoretical and scientific bases for the concept of atmospheric change. It offers a chronology of the politics of ozone layer depletion and climate change. It also examines the equity of these two issues in a comparison of the contributions to both climate change and ozone layer depletion made by Northern and Southern nations.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action, Joseph L. Sax, (New York: Borzoi Books, 1970), 252 pp.

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action examines the implications for the democratic state of a representative government which delegates authority for the management of natural resources to agencies. Further, it is a proposal for political and environmental activism which will mitigate the problems caused by agency management of these resources.

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.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Walter O. Spofford, Jr., Alfred L. Parker, and Allen V. Kneese, (eds), (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1980), 541 pp.

Energy Development in the Southwest: Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin is a comprehensive examination of the effects on the species and habitat of the Colorado River Basin of the development of energy sources, both hydroelectric power development and surface coal mining. The text is supported by numerous tables, graphs, maps and charts.

After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State, Cass R. Sunstein, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), 273 pp.

After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State is an examination of the regulatory state which has arisen as a result of the increase in statutory rights which were not explicitly addressed in the original Constitution or Bill of Rights of the United States. Specifically addressed are rights to: clean air and water, safe consumer products and workplaces, and civil rights, among others.

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.

Conflict and Crisis in Rural America, Larry W. Waterfield, (New York: Praeger, 1986), 232 pp.

Conflict and Crisis in Rural America is an examination of the nature of rural America and its relationship to urban America. This work discusses the conflicts which increasingly arise between the two regions over land use and growth issues.

Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest, Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle, (ed), (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989), 293pp.

Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest is an analysis of governmental regulation and deregulation, with particular focus on the Reagan administration. The work is a collection ofessays by economists and policy analysts and is forwarded by Robert W. Crandall of the Brookings Institute.

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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