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Author: Dara O'Rourke
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780262650649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase studies of community action in Vietnam form the basis for a new policy model for pollution control in developing countries.
Author: Dara James O'Rourke
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle C. Pautz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1136501746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although such a focus is understandable, it neglects the actors most responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the nation's environmental laws - the states. Recognition of the importance of the states still ignores an even smaller subsection of actors, inspectors. These front-line actors in state environmental agencies are the individuals responsible for writing environmental rules and ensuring compliance with those rules. They play an important role in the environmental regulatory state. With data collected from more than 1,200 inspectors across 17 states, Michelle C. Pautz and Sara R. Rinfret take a closer look at these neglected actors to better understand how environmental regulators perceive the regulated community and how they characterize their interactions with them. In doing so, they explore the role these front-line actors play, what it is like to be them, what they think of their place in the environmental regulatory system, and how they interact with the regulated community. An original, timely and unmatched volume advancing the debate on the future of environmental regulation in the U.S.
Author: Kee Warner
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2001-07-16
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813339238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about ”quality of life.” Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local ”growth machines.” Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0309452961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author: Kee Warner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0429981597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion, and more intangible worries about "quality of life." Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local "growth machines." Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.
Author: Benjamin van Rooij
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur globe increasingly faces environmental risks from emerging markets such as China, India, Indonesia and Brazil. Over the last decade a consensus has developed that the particular social, economic and regulatory contexts of emerging markets require a form of regulation that at leastpartly involves citizens, who it is believed can bring extra capacity and independence to overworked and captured state regulators. This paper focuses on the particular preconditions that are necessary for such citizen-based pollution regulation. It does so through an in-depth ethnographic case study conducted in southwest China, where given serious pollution and a clear awareness of such pollution, citizens have largely organized localized forms of collective action and bargaining without turning to outside regulators, media or courts, seeking compensation instead of prevention and control. The case study demonstrates how local socio-economic processes resulting from rapid industrialization combined with a lack of faith in state institutions have undermined citizens' attempts to become successful regulators. To move them outside of the so-called 'compensation trap' and into a fruitful role as co-regulators, state regulators must learn to better trust and communicate with pollution victims, who can be and should be their natural regulatory allies.
Author: David A. Moss
Publisher: The Tobin Project
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0982478801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs an experiment in reconnecting academia to the broader democracy, this work is designed to invigorate public policy debate by rededicating academic work to the pursuit of solutions to society's great problems.
Author: Stephen M. Maurer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1316772128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommercial and academic communities use private rules to regulate everything from labor conditions to biological weapons. This self-governance is vital in the twenty-first century, where private science and technology networks cross so many borders that traditional regulation and treaty solutions are often impractical. Self-Governance in Science analyzes the history of private regulation, identifies the specific market factors that make private standards stable and enforceable, explains what governments can do to encourage responsible self-regulation, and asks when private power might be legitimate. Unlike previous books which stress sociology or political science perspectives, Maurer emphasizes the economic roots of private power to deliver a coherent and comprehensive account of recent scholarship. Individual chapters present a detailed history of past self-government initiatives, describe the economics and politics of private power, and extract detailed lessons for law, legitimacy theory, and public policy.
Author: Leah M. Kuypers
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780982523162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"... a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones. To deepen students' understanding of how to self-regulate, the lessons set out to teach students these skills: how to read others' facial expressions and recognize a broader range of emotions, perspective about how others see and react to their behavior, insight into events that trigger their less regulated states, and when and how to use tools and problem solving skills. The curriculum's learning activities are presented in 18 lessons. To reinforce the concepts being taught, each lesson includes probing questions to discuss and instructions for one or more learning activities. Many lessons offer extension activities and ways to adapt the activity for individual student needs. The curriculum also includes worksheets, other handouts, and visuals to display and share. These can be photocopied from this book or printed from the accompanying CD."--Publisher's website.
