"As we approach the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century, environ-mental policy faces significant challenges both at home and around the world. New demands for dealing with the risks of climate change and threats to biological diversity, and for meeting the rising aspirations...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Kraft, Michael E. 1943- (HerausgeberIn), Rabe, Barry G. 1957- (HerausgeberIn), Vig, Norman J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Thousand Oaks, California CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE [2025]
Ausgabe:	Twelfth edition
Schlagworte:	Umweltpolitik USA Environmental policy / United States Environnement / Politique gouvernementale / États-Unis
Zusammenfassung:	"As we approach the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century, environ-mental policy faces significant challenges both at home and around the world. New demands for dealing with the risks of climate change and threats to biological diversity, and for meeting the rising aspirations of the planet's eight billion people, will force governments everywhere to rethink policy strategies and tools. They need to find effective and acceptable ways to reconcile environmental and economic goals and values through new approaches to sustainable development.In the United States, the early part of the 2010s saw a stagnant economy and persis-tently high unemployment. Over the following decade, the economy improved greatly, albeit with highly unequal results; some benefited while others did not. Despite these economic gains, new criticism emerged in the United States over the perceived adverse economic impacts of environmental and energy policies and regulations. As a result, the Donald Trump presidency pursued the most aggressive anti-environmental agenda of any administration since Ronald Reagan's in the 1980s. By mid-2023, the global coronavirus pandemic had created enormous economic damage and renewed concerns over a possibly prolonged recession. As economies around the world struggle to regain these losses over the next several years, environmental policies may well face continued skepticism both in the United States and in other nations if they are seen as adding to economic burdens.Many of these criticisms in the United States divide members of the two major par -ties deeply, as Republicans have continued to call for-as they long have-repealing, reducing, and reining in environmental policies and regulations in the face of strong Democratic defense of the same policies and actions. The result has been intense and relentless partisan debate on Capitol Hill and at the state and local levels [...]"
Beschreibung:	Eleventh edition published in 2022
Beschreibung:	xxiv, 404 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm
ISBN:	9781071902103