Better environmental policy studies : how to design and conduct more effective analysis
Environmental policy studies commissioned by government agencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action. But the results of even the most rigorous studies are frequently misappropriated or misunderstood and are as likely to confuse an issue as they are to clarify it. Better environmental policy studies explores this problem, as it considers the shortcomings of current approaches to policy studies and presents a pragmatic new approach to the subject. Reviewing five cases that are widely regarded as the most effective policy studies to have been conducted in the United States in the last few decades, the authors present a comprehensive guide to the concepts and methods required for conducting effective policy studies
Case studies
1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages) : illustrations
9781559638708, 9781559638715, 9781597268394, 9781417539789, 1559638702, 1559638710, 1597268399, 141753978X
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Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. The Conventional Approach to Environmental Policy Studies
Ch. 3. How Environmental Policy Studies Can Be Used Effectively
Ch. 4. How Policy Studies Should Be Organized
Ch. 5. Methods and Roles of Environmental Policy Studies
Ch. 6. Rethinking the Choice of Methods for Policy Analysis
Ch. 7. International Perspectives
App. A. National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Report Review Guidelines
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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