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Politics and Influence in Environmental Policy
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Climate Change Policy
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Natural Resources Policy
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Communicating Climate Change
Surveys climate change communications and their role in achieving climate change policy goals. Assesses the ethics and science of climate change communication. Explores theories and frameworks to evaluate and improve climate change communications. Examines the role of climate change communication…
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Environmental Justice
Examines background and legacy of public policy in contributing to and maintaining environmental injustice. Reviews methods for diagnosing and fostering environmental justice. Explores contemporary approaches to achieving environmental justice.
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Environmental Policy
Presents background to establish the need for environmental policy. Explores in a comparative manner, examining both successes and failures, various strategies that have been used or proposed to protect the environment. Explores different policy tools for environmental protection, including command-and-control…
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Water Law and Policy
Examines how society allocates and safeguards freshwater resources. Explores how policy and law address leading water management challenges, including water scarcity, groundwater depletion, and freshwater ecosystem preservation.
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Economic Approaches to Environmental Management
Examines the economic tools relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Tools are developed in the context of a series of resource problems, with an eye towards building intuition useful for addressing complex policy problems that do not fit neatly…
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GIS and Public Policy
Focuses on use of geographic information systems in public policy analysis with particular attention to the tools widely used by social scientists, public policy scholars, urban planners, and environmental scientists.
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Energy Policy
Energy policy formulation and implementation with emphasis on post-1973 developments. Energy conservation programs; changing roles of oil, coal, gas, nuclear, and solar energy; institutional, environmental, and equity considerations; government research and development programs.