The Environmental Case by Judith A Layzer

The Environmental Case by Judith A Layzer

Based around 16 cases, this book provides readers with insight into the most fascinating debates in U.S. environmental policy. This third edition features three brand new cases and has a host of features to fully engage students in this topic.

The Environmental Case continues to lead the field of undergraduate-friendly texts, providing theoretical frameworks and detailed case studies of domestic and international environmental eventsThe cases, which include Love Canal, environmental justice, fishing practices, and urban sprawl, include data from a variety of sources, questions for discussion, recommended readings, and relevant web sites. The book facilitates environmental politics courses by providing multiple cases in a single, affordable text, and I believe it will continue to serve as a standard for the future

-- Daniel P. Aldrich

Judith Layzer’s The Environmental Case is an indispensable book for my environmental policy and politics course. The introduction develops the guiding framework, namely that divergent problem definitions — stemming from intractable value conflicts — remain at the heart of U.S. environmental battles. Layzer’s fascinating and well chosen case studies are so versatile and valuable that her book now serves as a replacement for — rather than a supplement to — the leading textbook in my course

-- Daniel Lipson

Judith A. Layzer was professor of environmental policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until her death in 2015. She earned a Ph.D. in political science at MIT. After four years at Middlebury College in Vermont she returned to MIT, where she taught courses in science and politics in environmental policymaking, ecosystem-based management, food systems and the environment, urban sustainability, energy and environmental politics, and public policy. Layzer’s research focused on several aspects of U.S. environmental politics, including the roles of science, values, and storytelling in environmental politics, as well as on the effectiveness of different approaches to environmental planning and management. A recent project asked: Do urban sustainability initiatives significantly reduce cities’ ecological footprints? And which aspects of “green cities” are most effective at reducing cities’ environmental impacts? In addition to The Environmental Case, Layzer was the author of Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment (2008) and Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation (2012). Layzer was an athlete as well as a scholar. In addition to having finished five Boston marathons, she shared nine national championship titles and one world championship trophy with her teammates on Lady Godiva, formerly Boston’s premier women’s Ultimate Frisbee team. Judith A. Layzer 1961–2015

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ISBN 13	9781604266122
ISBN 10	1604266120
Title	The Environmental Case
Author	Judith A Layzer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2011-08-10
Number of pages	616
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