Product Description: " Gary Bryner's brief, readable, capstone book: " Features a forward by Mark A. Boyer Outlines the major environmental challenges facing the world today Applies international relations theory to these challenges Covers such key topics as development, sustainability, and market capitalism Offers a social justice perspective to environmental problems and solutions Borne of an amalgam of social science, fieldwork, and a passionate commitment to justice, this book brings debates about climate change to a new level, compelling readers and researchers to rethink the reasons for reversing global environmental trends...read more

Product Description: Offers a comprehensive overview of the policy debates surrounding US public lands and the natural resources they contain. This greatly expanded sencond edition traces the origin and evolution of policy, the current debate and future direction of land and natural resources policy...read more

Product Description: Science is central to understanding most environmental problems and the solutions proposed to remedy them. But environmental issues are highly emotive, attracting extremists from across the political spectrum even in the rarified air of international politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can suffer disproportionate harm from decisions about their management and use...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Can environmentalism evolve into a powerful social movement that transforms human practices in ways that are ecologically sustainable? Gary C. Bryner contends that it is in our self-interest as a species to ensure that environmental movements coalesce in the service of sustainability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A comprehensive overview of the policy debates surrounding U.S. public lands and the natural resources they contain. Bryner traces the origin and evolution of policy, and the current debate in Congress and within the Clinton administration over public lands and natural resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Addresses the difficulties faced by governmental agencies throughout the world in trying to achieve the targets set by environmental groups. The text examines the complexities of the policy making process, the use of market-based regulatory instruments, the kinds of institutions needed to ensure policy implementation, the interaction of environmental and economic concerns and the role of the developing world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil service under the Constitution. The common concern that unites the otherwise diverse approaches of the authors is the conception of public administration as a particular form of political activity. The contributors relate administrative issues to the broader questions of political life, such as political judgment and responsibility, the Constitution and constitutionalism, and the promotion of human liberty and the common good. They aim to encourage the administrator to become a democratic statesman. Present and prospective American civil servants, as well as political scientists and political philosophers, will find this book of interest.

Product Description: This updated analysis of the Clean Air Act of 1990 and how it has been enforced serves as a primer on air pollution regulation and the legislative process, and should be of interest to people in government, industry, and environmental groups -- and everyone interested in how the government walks the tightrope between economic interests and the protection of its citizens...read more

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