Amy Bradley Mnr

Natural Resource Management Amy Bradley Mnr

Natural Resource Management: Economic, Political, and Social Forces Influence on Environmental Policies is a collection of academic essays that delve into the reasoning behind the decision making that goes into creating environmental policies. The essays in this collection examines the stakeholders involved in the development of environmental policies, their motives behind their decisions and the consequences of the policies. Included in this collection are the following essays: "Social Response to Environmental Issues" discusses the different techniques used by social scientist to measure a citizen's orientation toward the environment as well as the rise of the modern environmental movement, the difference in rural and urban communities' views on natural resources, and the idea of an environmental hypocrite."Social and Cultural Influences on Environmental Policy" explores the environmental policies and problems of Nepal, Korea, the United States, and Australia and how different cultural and religious traditions effect environmental policy."Forces that Drive Environmental Policies" examines how environmental policy differs between post-industrial countries, post-communist countries, and developing countries. In particular, how the economic and governmental structures influence environmental policy. "Driving Forces of Environmental Politics and Policy" focuses on the effects population growth, economic development, technological change, globalization, and changing values have on the environmental policy process."Environmental Policy Process Participants" explains the roles of each participant in the process of creating environmental policy. Participants includes non-governmental interest groups, industrial groups, interest groups, and governmental offices, such as President and Congress."Markets, Science, Conflict, and Sustainability's Effect on Environmental Policy" describes the role of each in the process of creating environmental policy."The American Wilderness" and "Wilderness: the Effects of Human Expansion" attempt to explain the term wilderness and how it is improperly applied to the undeveloped areas in the United States called wilderness areas. This essay reals how the American landscape has been transformed over time and what we have today is far from pristine."Position Statement: Carbon Emissions" discusses placing limits on carbon emissions, specifically by using the cap and trade system and the opinions of both proponents and opponents."Environmental Social Justice: a Case Study of Northeast Portland, Oregon" examines the risks associated with environmental social justice in Portland, their uneven distribution, sources of the dissimilarities, reasons discrimination proof is difficult, and current actions attempting to fix the imbalance in environmental equality