Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us

ISBN-13: 9780813347257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Denise L. Scheberle

Opis

A book of case studies and stories featuring environmental villains and heroes that introduces students to environmental law and policy, and encourages them to affect positive environmental change.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Telling Stories: Villains and Heroes in Environmental Policy  2. The Night of the Gas: Union Carbide in Bhopal, India  3. Deep Trouble: The BP Oil Spill  4. Appalachian Coal Country: Explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine  5. The Town That Became a Superfund Site: Asbestos in Libby, Montana  6. Environmental Heroes: Nelson, Ruckelshaus, and Bonds  7. The Rest of Us: Learning How to Be Environmental Heroes

O autorze

Denise Scheberle is a clinical teaching professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is professor emerita and former Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the recipient of the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the American Political Science Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the University of Wisconsin Regent’s Teaching Excellence Award. She is the author of Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation.