The environmental case : translating values into policy / Judith A. Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Preface -- A policymaking framework : defining problems and portraying solutions in U.S. environmental politics -- Part 1. Regulating polluters. The nation tackles air and water pollution : the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts ; Love Canal : hazardous waste and the politics of fear ; Ecosystem-based management in the Chesapeake Bay ; Market-based solutions : acid rain and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 -- Part 2. History, changing values, and natural resource management. Oil versus wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ; Federal grazing policy : some things never change ; Jobs versus the environment : saving the northern spotted owl ; Playground or paradise? : snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park ; Crisis and recovery in the New England fisheries ; The Deepwater Horizon disaster : the high cost of offshore oil -- Part 3. New issues, new politics. Climate change : the challenges of international environmental policymaking ; Cape wind : if not here, where? If not now, when? ; Fracking wars : local and state responses to unconventional shale gas development ; Making trade-offs : urban sprawl and the evolving system of growth management in Portland, Oregon ; Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans : disaster, restoration, and resilience -- Conclusions : Politics, values, and environmental policy change.