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Der deutsche Wald: Sehnsuchtsort, Mythos, Identitätsstifter, aber auch Wirtschaftsfaktor. Deutschland hat die größten Holzvorräte in ganz Europa, mehr noch als Finnland oder Schweden, und ist Spitzenreiter in der Forstwirtschaft. In Zeiten der Klimakrise und des Artensterbens kommt dem Wald allerdings eine neue Schlüsselrolle zu, er soll gleichzeitig sauberes Wasser und gute Luft generieren, CO2-Emissionen limitieren, nachhaltige Roh- und Brennstoffe liefern und Naturschutz und Erholung garantieren. Aber ist er dazu überhaupt noch in der Lage? Denn es geht unseren Wäldern so...

Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity integrates the study of politics and public policy across a broad spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and several nations of Western Europe. The editors and a sterling list of contributors look at policymaking in the 1990s through the present--providing a comparative politics framework--stressing both parallel development and the differences between and among the nations. Similar prevailing ideas and political factors can be identified and transatlantic comparisons made--providing for a clearer...

After the Cure was written to improve the prospects for effective management of AIDS and other public health crises. Martin Levin and Mary Bryna Sanger draw on cases of previous large-scale public health initiatives to show how management effectiveness can meet...

In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening--and arguably impotent--pitch, how does the real work of politics get done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy changes.

The editors take a comparative approach, offering a thorough overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, with further discussion of President Obama's successful and failed attempts to build...

During the past decade, Democrats and Republicans each have received about fifty percent of the votes and controlled about half of the government, but this has not resulted in policy deadlock. Despite highly partisan political posturing, the policy regime has been largely moderate. Incremental, yet substantial, policy innovations such as welfare reform; deficit reduction; the North American Free Trade Agreement; and the deregulation of telecommunications, banking, and agriculture have been accompanied by such continuities as Social Security and Medicare, the maintenance of earlier...