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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.
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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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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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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.

• Foreword ix Introduction xvii Benjamin OUVRARD and Anne STENGER
• Chapter 1 The History of Incentives in Environmental Economics 1 Nathalie BERTA 1.1 From Pigou to the origins of the concept of externality 3 1.2 Coase theorem 5 1.3 The emergence of environmental externalities in the 1960s 8 1.4 The rift between theory and practice: regulation versus incentive 10 1.5 In search of second-best solutions 13 1.5.1 The emergence of the idea 13 1.5.2 "Least-cost" theorems 17 1.6 Conclusion 20 1.7 References 22
• Chapter 2 Environmental Incentives Over Time: From the First Forms of Regulation to the Recognition of Cognitive Biases 25 Phu NGUYEN-VAN and Thi Kim Cuong PHAM 2.1 The first forms of environmental regulation 27 2.1.1 Pigovian taxes 27 2.1.2 Externality market 33 2.1.3 Regulatory standards 37 2.2 Different incentives, varying effectiveness 40 2.3 The recent consideration of cognitive biases affecting environmental decisions 43 2.4 References 45
• Chapter 3 Environmental Regulation through Nudges 47 Benjamin OUVRARD and Anne STENGER 3.1 A look back at the concept of the nudge 48 3.1.1 Cognitive biases and environmental decisions 49 3.1.2 A more detailed exploration of the "nudge" concept 50 3.1.3 Some examples of nudges 51 3.2 Green nudges in the field, in the laboratory and in theory 53 3.2.1 Energy conservation and the conservation of natural resources 53 3.2.2 Green nudges in the laboratory 56 3.2.3 Only good results? 57 3.2.4 Premises of theoretical models 59 3.3 Interesting results, but ethical problems 64 3.3.1 Criticism focusing on manipulation 64 3.3.2 Criticism of the paternalistic aspect of nudges 67 3.3.3 Respect of freedoms and environmental regulation: the impossible choice? 68 3.4 Conclusion 69 3.5 References 70
• Chapter 4 Incentives, Prosocial Motivations, and Pro-environmental Public Policies: A Reflection Illustrated by the Waste Management Policy in France 77 Cecile BAZART and Rustam ROMANIUC 4.1 Heterogeneous determinants of motivation 80 4.1.1 Internal motivations versus external motivations 80 4.1.2 Social interactions 84 4.2 Waste prevention instruments in France 86 4.2.1 Regulatory motivations 86 4.2.2 The nature of preventative instruments 88 4.3 Tax versus reward: a European perspective 93 4.4 Conclusions and practical implications for heterogeneous determinants of motivation 95 4.5 References 97
• Chapter 5 Toward an Endogenization of Incentives? The Role of Education 103 Magali JAOUL-GRAMMARE 5.1 Introduction: the global mobilization for the environment 103 5.2 The theoretical mechanisms on which pro-environmental education is based 105 5.2.1 Factors influencing environmental behavior: motivations and incentives 106 5.2.2 Theoretical models 110 5.3 Concrete educational measures implemented 117 5.3.1 Education relative to the environment (ERE) 118 5.3.2 Education in sustainable development (ESD) 123 5.3.3 ESD at the international level 126 5.4 What are the results? Evaluations 128 5.4.1 Limoges regional education authority ESD investigation 129 5.4.2 The MGEN investigation 130 5.5 Conclusion: possible improvements for more effective ESD-- the necessity of feedback and efforts at permanence within educational mechanisms 131 5.6 References 132 Conclusion 139 Benjamin OUVRARD and Anne STENGER List of Authors 141 Index 143.
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The economic protection of the quality of the environment took shape properly in the middle of the 20th Century when various economic instruments were proposed to policymakers. Today, protecting the environment is essential, as evidenced in the rise in temperatures, the melting of the icecaps, the disappearance of animal species, etc. Moreover, with recent advances in other disciplines (notably in psychology), economists are turning more and more towards non-monetary forms of incentive. However, questions concerning the effectiveness of these forms arise. Incentives and Environmental Policies deals with the role of the economy in protecting the environment by revisiting traditional economic instruments and pursuing an advanced consideration of the role of new forms of incentive. It appears that, in order to strive towards the best possible environmental quality, policymakers will have to take into account the future of many combinations of socially acceptable incentives.
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