Environmental Governance: A Report on the Next Generation of Environmental Policy

by Donald F. Kettl

Overview

"Environmental policy has been the focus of reform efforts for more than a generation. Now policymakers face a new and challenging set of issues: how to develop strategies for attacking new environmental problems, how to develop better strategies for solving the old ones, and how to do both in ways that are more efficient, less taxing, and engender less political opposition. On one level, environmental performance is the problem. On a broader level, the question is how reshaped intergovernmental partnerships will affect how America is governed. This book charts the politics of the next generation of environmental policy: how citizens will sort competing goals and responsibilities, how conflict and collaboration will shape the policy options, and how the nation's political institutions will respond. These issues raise tough political problems that will define which options are viable and how different options will reshape politics. The contributors outline a path to fresh perspectives on the critical problems that must be addressed. Contributors: Christopher H. Foreman Jr. (University of Maryland, Brookings Institution), Donald F. Kettl (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brookings Institution), Shelley H. Metzenbaum (University of Maryland), Barry G. Rabe (University of Michigan), Graham K. Wilson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) About the Editor Donald F. Kettl is professor of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His recent books include The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance (Brookings, 2000) and The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815702559
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

"Donald F. Kettl is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also director of the Fels Institute of Government and a professor of political science. Kettl is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (CQ Press, 2nd ed., in 2007) and The Global Public Management Revolution (Brookings, 2nd ed., in 2005)."

Table of Contents

1	Introduction	1
2	Permitting, Prevention, and Integration: Lessons from the States	14
3	Measurement That Matters: Cleaning Up the Charles River	58
4	Regulatory Reform on the World Stage	118
5	The Civic Sustainability of Reform	146
6	Conclusion: The Next Generation	177
	About the Authors	191
	Index	193

Editorial Reviews

Six chapters, presented by Kettl (public affairs and political science, U. of Wisconsin in Madison), arguing that the first generation of American environmental regulations failed to effectively deal with nonpoint sources of pollution, examine possible environmental policy that deals with these sources and avoids the political cross-pressures that plagued the earlier regulations. Contributors discuss the use of measurement in efforts to clean up the Charles River, environmental regulation on the world stage, possibilities of trust-building between different stakeholders, and regulation at the state level. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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