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rdfs:label "\"The idea for this book was born when Professor Layzer was a graduate student in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the mid- 1990s. She worked with her adviser, Stephen Meyer, to develop a new undergraduate course in environmental politics and policy. After Professor Layzer searched extensively for material, they realized that, although many informative and readable texts on the history, substance, and efficacy of various environmental policies were available, few described environmental politics in action. Moreover, hardly any seemed to recognize the fundamental disagreements that make environmental controversies so intractable or to describe the patterns that emerge as one looks at the policymaking process across a broad range of issues. Professor Layzer set out to craft a set of case studies that would simultaneously convey the drama of U.S. environmental politics and furnish useful insights into the policymaking process. Professor Layzer's primary goal, then, was not to assess outcomes from a normative perspective, but to make some provocative claims about how environmental policies evolve, from the way we decide which problems are worthy of the government's attention to the mechanisms we choose to address them. The organization of this book emerged, and cases were added that captured new aspects of environmental politics or policy, such as a new matter of concern-wetlands or species extinction, for example-or a novel political dynamic, such as landscapescale planning. The division between pollution control and natural resource management was obvious; the third category-new issues, new politics-was less intuitive but sought to capture some of the most important contemporary puzzles in the realm of environmental policymaking. For the fifth edition, I continue Professor Layzer's tradition and focus on revising much of her work to date post-Trump. The sixth edition highlights the importance of challenging the status quo, asking questions whether or not the policy decisions we make (or do not) perpetuate marginalization. We offer a new chapter on the Salton Sea, demonstrating how our natural or unnatural actions inform our future, combatting global climate change. The cases focus on the importance of values, ideas, and information-particularly as they affect problem definition and solution characterization-in policymaking. Although this edition like others does not follow a clear analytic structure, each narrative is sufficiently self-explanatory so that economists, sociologists, public administrators, historians, and others interested in the book would not feel confined by political science or policy jargon\"-- Provided by publisher." ] ;
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