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• Chapter 1: The Historical Roots of NEPA
• Chapter 2: NEPA: The Rational Approach to Change
• Chapter 3: Implementing NEPA: A Non-Technical Political Task
• Chapter 4: The Rationality and Logic of NEPA Revisited
• Chapter 5: Basic Purposes and Policies of the NEPA Regulations
• Chapter 6: The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy
• Chapter 7: What Has NEPA Wrought Abroad?
• Chapter 8: Cumulative Effects and Other Analytical Challenges of NEPA
• Chapter 9: Can NEPA Prevent "Ecological Train Wrecks"?
• Chapter 10: The Case for Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Management Under NEPA
• Chapter 11: Highlights of NEPA in the Courts
• Chapter 12: The CEQ NEPA Effectiveness Study: Learning From Our Past and Shaping Our Future
• Chapter 13: Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of NEPA Through the Use of Technology
• Chapter 14: Putting People in the Environment: Principles of Social Impact Assessment
• Chapter 15: The Missing Link: Effects on Communities, Neighborhoods and Individuals
• Chapter 16: Public Involvement Under NEPA: Trends and Opportunities
• Chapter 17: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the NEPA Process
• Chapter 18: Creating a User-Friendly NEPA
• Chapter 19: NEPA and Tribal Matters
• Chapter 20: The Role of NEPA in Sustainable Development
• Chapter 21: NEPA's Interdisciplinary Mandate: Redirection for Sustainability
• Chapter 22: Environmental Policy and NEPA: Future Directions.
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Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future. An outgrowth of initiatives taken by the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and edited by the current Associate Director, this publication studies the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).Divided into three main sections, part one covers the historical background and trends of NEPA. Part two addresses current substantive and conceptual issues associated with the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. Part three discusses future opportunities including impact on humans, effective public participation in the EIA process and the need for sustainability.This excellent reference brings together 28 contributing authors who combine their expertise to address a multitude of topics. Environmental Policy and NEPA is mandatory reading for the professional, researcher, government policymaker, activist, student or anyone looking for a complete presentation of the EIA process.
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• Chapter 1: The Historical Roots of NEPA
• Chapter 2: NEPA: The Rational Approach to Change
• Chapter 3: Implementing NEPA: A Non-Technical Political Task
• Chapter 4: The Rationality and Logic of NEPA Revisited
• Chapter 5: Basic Purposes and Policies of the NEPA Regulations
• Chapter 6: The Unfinished Business of National Environmental Policy
• Chapter 7: What Has NEPA Wrought Abroad?
• Chapter 8: Cumulative Effects and Other Analytical Challenges of NEPA
• Chapter 9: Can NEPA Prevent "Ecological Train Wrecks"?
• Chapter 10: The Case for Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Management Under NEPA
• Chapter 11: Highlights of NEPA in the Courts
• Chapter 12: The CEQ NEPA Effectiveness Study: Learning From Our Past and Shaping Our Future
• Chapter 13: Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of NEPA Through the Use of Technology
• Chapter 14: Putting People in the Environment: Principles of Social Impact Assessment
• Chapter 15: The Missing Link: Effects on Communities, Neighborhoods and Individuals
• Chapter 16: Public Involvement Under NEPA: Trends and Opportunities
• Chapter 17: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the NEPA Process
• Chapter 18: Creating a User-Friendly NEPA
• Chapter 19: NEPA and Tribal Matters
• Chapter 20: The Role of NEPA in Sustainable Development
• Chapter 21: NEPA's Interdisciplinary Mandate: Redirection for Sustainability
• Chapter 22: Environmental Policy and NEPA: Future Directions.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future. An outgrowth of initiatives taken by the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and edited by the current Associate Director, this publication studies the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).Divided into three main sections, part one covers the historical background and trends of NEPA. Part two addresses current substantive and conceptual issues associated with the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. Part three discusses future opportunities including impact on humans, effective public participation in the EIA process and the need for sustainability.This excellent reference brings together 28 contributing authors who combine their expertise to address a multitude of topics. Environmental Policy and NEPA is mandatory reading for the professional, researcher, government policymaker, activist, student or anyone looking for a complete presentation of the EIA process.
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Environmental degradation and the compromised integrity of the earth's ecological system were growing public concerns in the mid- to late 1960s. These issues spurred Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the first law to focus such environmental concerns into a comprehensive national policy. The new legislation encompassed an array of environmental values and ethics, as well as administrative tools to achieve the ecological goals of the nation while taking into account other important societal needs. Though NEPA has had a positive effect on U.S. environmental policy and the national quality of life, this new book shows how federal courts and agencies have failed to implement many of the values and goals fundamental to the success of NEPA. To explain this divergence, Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith examine NEPA's origins, address how it has been implemented and enforced, and highlight its shortcomings. Lindstrom and Smith argue compellingly that if NEPA were fully and properly implemented, it would prove to be a valuable tool for balancing the needs of the world population and the protection of the earth's environment. This book is well suited for audiences interested in public policy formation and implementation; environmental historians; and those involved in environmental law, its policy, and its politics.
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• Environmental Politics, Policy, and Administration in the United States
• The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Rise of Environmental Protection in the 1970s, and the Political Drama of the Next Three Decades
• Lifecycle Models of Organizations
• The Council on Environmental Quality, 1970-2010
• The Environmental Protection Agency, 1970-2010
• Comparing the Paths of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency and Assessing the Lifecycle Models
• The Future of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency: 2015-2035
• Postscript: Sustainability and the Environmental Protection Agency..

During the middle and late 1960s, public concern about the environment grew rapidly, as did Congressional interest in addressing environmental problems. Then, in 1970, a dramatic series of bipartisan actions were taken to expand the national government's efforts to control the volume and types of substances that pollute the air, water, and land. In that year, President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act, which established for the first time a national policy on the environment and created the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Additionally, President Nixon created, with Congressional support, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1970, which had overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress. The strong bipartisan consensus on the need to protect environmental and human health began to erode, however, during the middle and late 1970s as other domestic and foreign policy problems rose to the top of the public and legislative agendas. Ronald Reagan's election to the Presidency in 1980 marked a dramatic shift in both environmental policymaking and administration. Over the thirty years that followed Reagan's election, environmental politics and administration became increasingly polarized. In this book, James K. Conant and Peter J. Balint examine the trajectory of environmental policy and administration in the United States by looking at the development of the CEQ and EPA. They look at changes in budgetary and staffing resources over time as well as the role of quality of leadership as key indicators of capacity and vitality. As well, they make correlations between the agencies' fortunes and various social, political, and economic variables. Conant and Balint cautiously predict that both agencies are likely to survive over the next twenty years, but that they will both experience continuing volatility as their life histories unfold.
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"The UNEP Knowledge Repository is the United Nations Environment Programme’s official platform for its research content and knowledge products. The repository gives open access to UNEP’s publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles and other types of information material."

These recommendations are based on existing good practice and are intended as a practical tool to provide helpful guidance and to improve the implementation of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention in decision-making to: a) assist Parties when designing their legal framework on public participation in environmental decision-making; b) assist public officials when designing and carrying out public participation procedures on environmental decision-making under the Convention, and c) provide an invaluable tool through which to share expertise and good practice so as to promote participation. The Recommendations may also be of value to public, NGOs and the private sector involved in environmental matters.
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• Treaties for the earth
• Making environmental treaties work
• Sorting out the roles of U.N. bodies
• Greening the Bretton Woods Institutions
• Democratizing global environmental governance
• Moving forward.

• Chapter 1 Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics
• Environmentalism in a Carbon Democracy
• Keystone XL and Pipeline Politics
• Distributed Potentialities
• Chapter 2 H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges
• Situated Knowledges and a Passionate Scientist
• Hybridity's Alternative Maps
• Parabolic Walks
• Chapter 3 Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest
• Insurgent Bacteria
• Decentered Humans
• Chapter 4 The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead
• Material Temporalities
• Distributed Revolutions
• A Patient Urgency
• Chapter 5 (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow and Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
• Wasting Away on the Land
• Organize "Where You Are"
• Disintentional Organizing
• Chapter 6 The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Speculative Fiction

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism. In Material Insurgency, Andrew M. Rose examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism. Working at the intersection of material ecocriticism, posthuman theory, and environmental political theory, Rose critically focuses on the ways social movement organizing might effectively operate within the context of distributed agency. This concept undoes the privileging of rational human actors to suggest agency is better understood as a complex mixture of human and nonhuman forces. Rose explores various representations of distributed agency, from the pipeline politics of the Keystone XL campaign to the speculative literary fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kim Stanley Robinson. Each of these cultural and literary texts provides a window into the possible constitution of a (distributed) environmental politics that does not yet exist and operates as a resource for envisioning environmental actors we cannot necessarily study empirically, because they are still only a prospect, or potential, of our imagination.Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University