Caribou and Conoco : rethinking environmental politics in Alaska's ANWR and beyond

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    • McMonagle, Robert John

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Caribou and Conoco : rethinking environmental politics in Alaska's ANWR and beyond

Robert J. McMonagle

Lexington Books, c2008

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index

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内容説明

Step by step, this book shatters the myth that important environmental energy debates in the United States have been driven by forces too complex for the average American to comprehend. Although made up of a number of contributions, Robert McMonagle's book makes sense of the underlying political and societal forces driving contemporary environmental energy debates including the critical case of whether to drill for energy sources at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. This book aims to answer two questions by examining four case studies of the policy-making process: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; drilling on public lands in the Western United States and in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico; along with a proposal to develop a commercial wind farm off the Massachusetts coast. First, what political and societal forces have shaped modern, contentious environmental energy debates in the US? Second, what do the findings reveal about the way in which environmental energy policies are made, about our institutions of government, and about the influences of the public versus elites in making policy? Dr. McMonagle finds that partisan voting in Congress is a critical factor in policy shifts, especially when symbols are used to define policy issues. Further, public opinion and the print media remain important factors in defining issues leading to legislative policy victories.

目次

Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Figures Chapter 3 Tables Chapter 4 List of Abbreviations Chapter 5 Preface Chapter 6 Acknowledgments Chapter 7 1 Introduction: Rethinking Environmental-Energy Policy Studies Chapter 8 2 The Case of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): A History Chapter 9 3 Advance to Go: The ANWR Policy Monopoly Unravels Chapter 10 4 "Civility" in Washington? Party Politics in Environmental-Energy Policy Making Chapter 11 5 Forces for Change: Political and Social Currents for ANWR, Western Lands, the Gulf of Mexico, and Cape Cod Wind Farms Chapter 12 6 Patterns of Decisions across the Environment-Energy Divide Chapter 13 Methodological Appendix Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index

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