Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911937961
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Building Capacity to Participate in Environmental Protection Agency Activities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911937961
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
EPA's Environmental Law, Enforcement, and Judicial Capacity-building Training Activities
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Nonpoint Source News-notes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonpoint source pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Community-based Environmental Protection
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Stakeholder Involvement & Public Participation at the U.S. EPA
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428901264
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Science for Environmental Protection
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309264898
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In anticipation of future environmental science and engineering challenges and technologic advances, EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the overall capabilities of the agency to develop, obtain, and use the best available scientific and technologic information and tools to meet persistent, emerging, and future mission challenges and opportunities. Although the committee cannot predict with certainty what new environmental problems EPA will face in the next 10 years or more, it worked to identify some of the common drivers and common characteristics of problems that are likely to occur. Tensions inherent to the structure of EPA's work contribute to the current and persistent challenges faced by the agency, and meeting those challenges will require development of leading-edge scientific methods, tools, and technologies, and a more deliberate approach to systems thinking and interdisciplinary science. Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead outlines a framework for building science for environmental protection in the 21st century and identified key areas where enhanced leadership and capacity can strengthen the agency's abilities to address current and emerging environmental challenges as well as take advantage of new tools and technologies to address them. The foundation of EPA science is strong, but the agency needs to continue to address numerous present and future challenges if it is to maintain its science leadership and meet its expanding mandates.
Community Culture and the Environment
Author: Sustainable Development, Environmental Protection, and Trade
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309134412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. Although some form of public participation is often required by law, agencies usually have broad discretion about the extent of that involvement. Approaches vary widely, from holding public information-gathering meetings to forming advisory groups to actively including citizens in making and implementing decisions. Proponents of public participation argue that those who must live with the outcome of an environmental decision should have some influence on it. Critics maintain that public participation slows decision making and can lower its quality by including people unfamiliar with the science involved. This book concludes that, when done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment. Well-managed public involvement also increases the legitimacy of decisions in the eyes of those affected by them, which makes it more likely that the decisions will be implemented effectively. This book recommends that agencies recognize public participation as valuable to their objectives, not just as a formality required by the law. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public.
Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy
Author: Helmut WeidnerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662047942
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen dix). The OECD defines environmental capacity building as "a society's ability to identify and solve environmental problems. " While various institutions, including UNEP, FAO, World Bank and OECD, have hitherto used the terms environmental capacity and capacity building almost exclusively with reference to developing countries, we have extended the concepts to industrialized countries, as well. The first collection, edited by Martin Janicke, Helge Joergens (both Free University Berlin) and Helmut Weidner (Social Science Research Center Berlin), was pub lished in 1997 under the title "National Environmental Policies - A Comparative Study of Capacity-Building" (Berlin, etc. : Springer Verlag). It included 13 studies of countries. As in the first volume, chapter I presents the conceptual framework underlying the national case studies. It is a slightly shorter version of the corresponding chap ter in volume I. The design of all case studies in the two volumes is largely con gruent with this conceptual framework. Although the various sections of the stud ies do not always have identical titles and subtitles, the central elements of the capacity-building approach have been applied in all cases.