Title Environmental problem-solving : balancing science and politics using consensus building tools : guided readings and scenario assignments from MIT's training program for environmental professionals / Lawrence Susskind, Bruno Verdini, Jessica Gordon and Yasmin Zaerpoor

Edition Second edition Published London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-Title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Credits and Permission -- Units -- Introduction -- Scenario Assignments -- Unit I Influencing the Environmental Policy-Making Process -- Introduction -- Commentaries and Reading Excerpts -- Steven Cohen -- "Understanding Environmental Policy" and "A Framework for Understanding the Environmental Policy Issue." In Understanding Environmental Policy. New York: Columbia University Press. -- Reading Commentary -- Chapter 1 Understanding Environmental Policy Differing Perspectives on Environmental Policy -- Developing a Framework to Help Understand Environmental Issues -- Applying the Framework to a Set of Environmental Issues -- Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Environmental and Sustainability Policy -- Chapter 2 A Framework for Understanding the Environmental Policy Issue -- Values -- Applying the Values Dimension of the Framework -- Environmental Politics -- Applying the Political Dimension of the Framework -- Science, Technology, and the Environment -- Applying the Science and Technology Dimension of the Framework Environmental Policy Design and Economic Factors as an Influence on Damaging Corporate and Private Behaviors -- Defining Regulation -- Policy Design: How to Develop and Implement a Regulatory Strategy -- The Tools of Strategic Regulation -- A Strategic Approach to Regulation -- Policy Design that Regulates Individual Behavior and Stimulates Social Learning -- Applying the Policy Design Dimension of the Framework -- Environmental and Sustainability Management -- Applying the Management Dimension of the Framework -- Next Steps -- Notes Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh and Anthony Perl - "Agenda-Setting," "Policy Formulation and Policy Design, "Public Policy Decision-Making and Policy Implementation" and "Policy Evaluation: Policy Making as Learning." In Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles & -- Reading Commentary -- Chapter 4 Agenda-​Setting -- The Objective Construction of Policy Problems: The Role of Social Conditions and Structures -- The Subjective Construction of Policy Problems: The Role of Policy Actors and Paradigms -- Combining Ideas, Actors, and Structures in Multi-​Variable Models of Agenda-​Setting Funnel of Causality -- Issue -Attention Cycles -- Modes of Agenda-​Setting -- Linking Agenda-​Setting Modes to Content: Policy Windows and Policy Monopolies -- Conclusion: Revisiting Agenda-​Setting Modes Through a Policy Subsystem Lens -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Policy Formulation: Policy Instruments and Policy Design -- What is Policy Formulation? -- The Phases of Policy Formulation -- The General Content of Policy Formulation -- The Substance of Policy Formulation: Policy Instruments -- Taxonomies of Policy Instruments -- Note -- Chapter 6 Public Policy Decision-​Making Summary 'Environmental Problem-Solving' presents short excerpts from carefully selected readings, expert commentaries on those readings, assignments, and the best MIT student responses to the assignments and exam questions with excellent student response. The book presents four main models of environmental policy-making: competing theories of environmental ethics; tools for environmental assessment and environmental decision-making; and techniques for public engagement and group decision-making. The book covers the material presented in the semester-long course required of all students enrolled in MIT's Environmental Policy and Planning Specialization Notes Actors in the Decision-​Making Process Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2021) Subject Environmental policy. Environmental management. Environmental policy -- Problems, exercises, etc environmental policy. environmental control. Environmental management. Environmental policy. Genre/Form exercise books. Problems and exercises. Problems and exercises. Problèmes et exercices. Form Electronic book Author Verdini Trejo, Bruno, author. Gordon, Jessica, author Zaerpoor, Yasmin, author ISBN 9781785271335 1785271334 9781785271328 1785271326

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