Depending upon the number of students signing up for the course and the number of guest speakers, the number of chapters we’ll focus upon may change. For now, the highest priorities are Chapters 1–6, 8, and 10-14.
CHAPTER 1 • A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics
CHAPTER 2 • The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts
CHAPTER 3 • Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear
CHAPTER 4 • Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay
CHAPTER 5 • Market-Based Solutions: Acid Rain and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
CHAPTER 6 • Oil Versus Wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
CHAPTER 7 • Federal Grazing Policy: Some Things Never Change
CHAPTER 8 • Jobs Versus the Environment: Saving the Northern Spotted Owl
CHAPTER 9 • Playground or Paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National
CHAPTER 10 • Crisis and Recovery in the New England Fisheries
CHAPTER 11 • The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The High Cost of Offshore Oil
CHAPTER 12 • Climate Change: The Crisis of Our Time
CHAPTER 13 • Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When?
CHAPTER 14 • Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development
CHAPTER 15 • Making Trade-Offs: Urban Sprawl and the Evolving System of Growth Management in Portland, Oregon
CHAPTER 16 • Post-Katrina: Lessons From a Disaster
CHAPTER 17 • Conclusions: Politics, Values, and Environmental Policy Change