Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, And Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Tradeoffs In Public Policy Analysis - Couverture souple

Gillroy, John Martin; Rabe, Barry; Paehlke, Robert C; Gunderson, William; Page, R Talbot

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813381479 ISBN 13 : 9780813381473

Editeur : Westview Press, 1993

Synopsis

Public decisions on environmental risk have traditionally been weighed in terms of the principle of efficiency and its methodologies, such as cost-benefit analysis. These original essays argue for moving beyond the market paradigm toward making policy that incorporates environmental values.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher J. Bosso is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is author of Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (1987) and winner of the Policy Studies Organization award for the best book in policy studies. John H. Portz is associate professor and director of graduate programs in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is author of The Politics of Plant Closings (1990) and co-author of City Schools and City Politics (1999). Portz also serves as an elected town councilor in the city of Watertown, Massachusetts. Michael C. Tolley is associate professor and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Among Prof. Tolley's works are State Constitutionalism in Maryland (1992), Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America (1995), and the forthcoming Freedom, Rule of Law, and Democracy in the United States and Britain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813381479
• ISBN 13: 9780813381473
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 189
• Éditeur: EDITOR *
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