Chapter 1 • A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and
Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics
Part I • Regulating Polluters
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: A Forgotten Success Story
Part II • History, Changing Values, and Natural Resource
Management
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 Park
Chapter 10 • Lessons from the Fish: Crisis and Recovery in New
England
Part III • New Issues, New Politics
Chapter 11 • Climate Change: The Crisis of our Time
Chapter 12 • Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When?
Chapter 13 • Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to
Unconventional Shale Gas Development
Chapter 14 • Making Trade-Offs: Urban Sprawl and the Evolving
System of Growth Management in Portland, Oregon
Chapter 15 • The Salton Sea: A Desert Mirage
Chapter 16 • Conclusions: Politics, Values, and Environmental
Policy Change
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
Dr. Sara R. Rinfret is currently a Professor of Public
Administration and Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at
Northern Arizona University. She has more than a decade of higher
education administrative experience and is a nationally recognized
scholar in regulatory policy, environmental policy, and public
administration. She previously served as the Acting Dean for the
Alexander Blewett School of Law, Chair of the Department of Public
Administration and Policy, and the Director of Master of Public
Administration at the University of Montana. To date, she has
published 8 books and more than 40 peer reviewed articles, and
several book chapters. She is the recipient of the Fulbright
Specialist Program in public administration and studied with
scholars at the University of Aarhus (Denmark, 2016). She holds an
MPA from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs (Ohio State), and
PhD in political science from Northern Arizona University.
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