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Frontmatter --Contents --Preface to the Third Edition --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction: Environment and Governance --2. Who Owns the Environment? Historical Context and Colonial Precedents --3. The Constitutional Framework --4. Land and Transport: Commercial Development as Environmental Policy --5. Industrialization, Resource Differentiation, and Public Resource Management --6. Public Health and Urban Sanitation --7. The Progressive Era --8. Conservative "Normalcy" and New Deal Conservation --9. Superpower and Supermarket --10. The Rise of Modern Environmentalism --11. Toward a National Environmental Policy --12. The EPA: Nationalizing Pollution Control --13. Public Lands and Wildlife Conservation --14. Agricultural and Urban Environmental Management --15. Energy Policy and Climate Change --16. Environmental Policy in a Global Economy --17. The Trump Agenda --18. Man aging the Environment, Managing Ourselves --Chronology --Notes --Index

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SummaryHigh party discipline and high party strength induce legislators to stay committed to the party's promised policies after their election. This is because party leaders are able to punish deviations and reward behavior that is in the party's interest. Higher political stability induces party leaders to take a longer‐term perspective. We investigate the following interrelated hypotheses: (i) the effects of party discipline and party strength on environmental policy are conditional on the degree of political stability; and (ii) the effect of political stability is conditional on the levels of party discipline and party strength. Our empirical findings support these hypotheses.

If sustainability is our goal, social and environmental policy must be treated as one and the same field. Examples from Agriculture, Nutrition, Forestry, Urban Planning, Care Work, Tourism, and University Management show that such a paradigm shift is indicated, important, and timely. They also show that Environmental or Social Impact Assessments are no longer adequate. The new paradigm synthetically combines environmental and social policy. Not to do so leads to policy inefficiency and perverse effects. One policy domain may counteract or outright "sabotage" the other. To synthetically combine environmental and social policy calls for a trans-disciplinary perspective to include both policy fields and academic disciplines. This is well illustrated by the contributors in this book who represent numerous academic disciplines. They help professionals and students appreciate the centrality of trans-disciplinary thought and practice in working toward sustainability

AbstractContrary to the claims of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that its torture program was scientific, the program was not based on biology or any other science. Instead, the George W. Bush administration veneered the program's justification with a patina of pseudoscience, ignoring the actual biology of torturing human brains. We reconstruct the Bush administration's decision-making process to establish that the policy decision to use torture took place in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks without any investigation into its efficacy. We then present the pseudoscientific model of torture sold to the CIA, show why this ad hoc model amounted to pseudoscience, and then catalog what the actual science of torturing human brains—available in 2001—reveals about the practice. We conclude with a discussion of how a process incorporating countervailing evidence might prevent a policy going forward that is contrary to law, ethics, and evidence.