True green : executive effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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True green : executive effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Lexington Books, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation's environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted public issues of today, these scholars provide lessons of executive effectiveness in the principal government institution essential to national environmental progress. The EPA shoulders great expectations from the public and political leaders on fulfilling its statutorily assigned activities. As a result, EPA must act in concert with state and local governments, nongovernment organizations and interest groups, as well as business and industry. This volume also highlights the career civil servants who bridge across from policymakers to the government bureaucrats who must make real the abstract policy choices of politicians. True Green uses the experiences of the individual contributors to provide a deeper understanding of the practices associated with effective executive behavior in the Environmental Protection Agency.
Table of Contents
Preface
Lee M. Thomas
Introduction
Chapter 1: Call and Response: The Senior Executive Service
Thomas Kelly
Chapter 2: Managing the Conventional Path: Air Quality Planning and Management
Gerald Andrews Emison
Chapter 3: The Challenges of Pesticide Regulation: Reconciling Past Decisions While Forging a Better Future
Susan Wayland
Chapter 4: Leading at the Intergovernmental Boundary: EPA's Regional Offices
A. Stanley Meiburg
Chapter 5: Transitioning from the Conventional Path: Water Quality and Wetlands/Watersheds
Robert Wayland
Chapter 6: Protection Without Command-And-Control Systems: The Underground Storage Tanks System
Ronald Brand
Chapter 7: Protection in a Non-Regulated World: The Indoor Air Program
Thomas Kelly
Chapter 8: Formal systems for Planning and Managing National Environmental Protection
David Ziegele
Chapter 9: Lessons for Leadership in Environmental Management
John C. Morris and Gerald Andrews Emison
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