Thinking Ecologically
The Next Generation of Environmental Policy
- 288 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the obvious enemy: large American factories with belching smokestacks and pipes gushing wastes. Federal legislation has succeeded in providing cleaner air and water, but we now confront a different set of environmental problems - less visible and more subtle. This important book offers thought-provoking ideas on how America can respond to changing public health and ecological risks and create sound environmental policy for the future.
The innovative thinkers of the Next Generation Project of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - experts from business, government, nongovernmental organizations, and academia - propose reforms that balance environmental efforts with other public needs and issues. They call for new foundations for environmental law and policy, adoption of a more diverse set of policy tools and strategies (economic incentives, ecolabels), and new connections between critical sectors (agriculture, energy, transportation, service providers) and environmental policy. Future progress must involve not only officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental protection departments, say the authors, but also decision-makers as diverse as mayors, farmers, energy company executives, and delivery route planners. To be effective, next-generation policy-making will view environmental challenges comprehensively, connect academic theory with practical policy, and bridge the gaps that have caused recent policy debates to break down in rancor. This book begins the process of accomplishing these challenging goals.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Thinking Ecologically: An Introduction
- Part I. Foundations for the Next Generation
- 1. Industrial Ecology: Overcoming Policy Fragmentation
- 2. Ecosystem Management and Economic Development
- 3. Property Rights and Responsibilities
- 4. Land Use: The Forgotten Agenda
- 5. Sorting Out a Service-Based Economy
- 6. Globalization, Trade, and Interdependence
- Part Two. Tools and Strategies for the Next Generation
- 7. Market-Based Environmental Policies
- 8. Privately Financed Sustainable Development
- 9. Technology Innovation and Environmental Progress
- 10. Data, Risk, and Science: Foundations for Analysis
- 11. Toward Ecological Law and Policy
- Part Three. Extending the Reach of Next-Generation Policy
- 12. Coexisting with the Car
- 13. Environmental Protection from Farm to Market
- 14. Energy Prices and Environmental Costs
- 15. A Vision for the Future
- Appendix One: Next Generation Project Participants
- Appendix Two: Contributors
- Abbreviations
- For Further Reading
- Index