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MIT

17.32  (Spring 2003)

Instructor:
Prof. Steve Meyer

Level
Undergraduate




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Government environmental regulation books. (Image courtesy Daniel Bersak.)

Course Highlights

This course includes extensive lecture notes.

Course Description

"Environmental Politics & Policy" explores the workings of environmental policymaking in the United States.

  • What are the big issues facing environmental policy?
  • How did we end up with the policies we have today?
  • Why does it take a crisis to move environmental policy forward?
  • Why do political factors - economic interests, social and political values, bureaucratic styles, ideologies, elections, etc. - always seem to overwhelm sound scientific and engineering judgment in determining policy outcomes?
Case studies ranging from cleaning up toxic waste pollution to endangered species protection probe the clashes between science and politics at local, state, and federal levels.

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Copyright 2007, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. administrator. (2009, May 08). Pols480 Environmental Politics and Policy (Undergrad) 2003 MIT. Retrieved July 31, 2010, from Free University Courses OCW Courses OpenCourseWare Freeversity Foundation Web site: http://www.freeversity.org/science-and-mathematics/environmental-science/pols480-environmental-politics-and-policy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons License