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I. Environmental Problems and Politics
A. Perspectives on Environmental Problems
1. Scientific Knowledge and Its Use
2. Economics and Incentives
3. Environmental Values and Ethics
B. The Role of Government and Politics
1. Defining Environmental Policy
2. Policy Typologies
3. Public Policy Responses
C. Historical Framework for Environmental Protection
1. From the Colonial Period to 1900
2. Progressive Reforms and Conservationism: 1900 - 1945
3. Recreation and the Age of Ecology: Post World War II to 1969
4. Earth Days and Deregulation: 1970 - present
5. Global Awareness and Gridlock: 1993 to the present
D. Principles, methodologies, value systems and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry related to environmental research.
II. Participants in the Environmental Debate
A. U.S. environmental organizations
B. The Environmental Justice Movement
C. Radical environmentalism
D. Environmental opposition in the United States
E. The Role of the media and public opinion
F. Global Green political parties
G. International governmental organizations
H. Transnational advocacy networks
III. Environmental Policy-Making
A. The Policy Process Model
1. Agenda Setting
2. Policy Formulation
3. Policy Adoption
4. Policy Implementation
5. Policy Evaluation
6. Policy Change
B. The Role of the Executive Branch
C. Congressional Policy-Making
D. Courts and Environmental Policy
E. State and Local Policy Making
F. The EPA's Organization, Budget and Jurisdiction
IV. Public Lands Debate
A. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Management of Public Lands
B. U.S. Forest Policy
C. Battles over Wilderness
D. Grazing Rights
E. Private Property and Public Lands
F. The Endangered Species Act
G. Food Production and Agricultural Policy
V. Waste and Toxics Issues
A. The Nature of Waste: Generation and Disposal
B. Hazardous Waste
C. Toxic Chemicals and Health Effects
D. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Superfund
E. The Toxic Substances Control Act
F. Nuclear Waste
VI. Energy Policies
A. The Energy Pie
B. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) Standards
C. Energy Policy Cycles
1. Carter's National Energy Plan
2. Reagan's Deregulation of Energy
3. The Bush Administration National Energy Strategy
4. Energy Policy under the Clinton Administration
5. Energy Policy Fluctuations: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
6. State and Local Energy Initiatives
D. Energy Use and Climate Change
VII. The Politics of Water
A. Trends in Water Use
B. Water Resource Management in the United States
C. Wetlands Protection
D. Water Quality
1. Pollution of Surface Waters
2. Drinking Water Quality
3. Toxic Contamination
E. The Clean Water Act
F. The Safe Drinking Water Act
VIII. Air Quality: Pollution and Solutions
A. Sources of Air Pollution
B. Indoor Air Quality
C. Acid Precipitation
D. The Clean Air Act
E. The Clear Skies Initiative
F. Transboundary Air Pollution
G. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Stratospheric Ozone Layer
IX. The Global Commons
A. Global Climate Change
B. International treaties from Kyoto Protocol to Paris Accord
C. Biodiversity Loss and Implications
D. Population and Sustainability
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