Better Environmental Policy Studies: How To Design And Conduct More Effective Analyses [Paperback]

Lawrence Susskind (Author), Ravi K. Jain (Author), Andrew O. Martyniuk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2001

This book looks at five of the most important environmental policy studies undertaken in recent decades to determine what made them successful and to devise strategies for creating successful studies in the future. It presents a pragmatic approach to conducting environmental policy studies, one that recognises the conflicting agendas that complicate the arena. It seeks to give policy studies real credence so that they can contribute to better environmental decisions, rather than end up as casualities of warfare. Recognising that interests won't cease to conflict, this book seeks to define a path for the policy analyst that enables productive outcomes. Better Environmental Policy Studies: How to Design and Conduct More Effective Analyses is unique in presenting a pragmatic, battle-tested approach to overcoming the obstacles to using our best understanding in formulating environmental policies. The lead author, Larry Susskind, is widely recognised for his approach to resolving environmental disputes and has unique credibility in this enterprise. Its emphasis on principles and cases should make it valuable to a wide range of students and professionals frustrated with the ineffectiveness that characterises current policy analysis, regardless of how good it is.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Island Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559638710
• ISBN-13: 978-1559638715
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,568,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Susskind (born in New York City in 1947) heads the Environmental Policy and Planning Program (web.mit.edu/dusp/epp) and the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative (scienceimpact.mit.edu) at MIT where he has been teaching since 1970. His work as an environmental planner focuses on the mediation of environmental disputes and strategies for involving large numbers of groups with very different ideas and interests in managing natural resources together. Negotiating Environmental Agreements, Environmental Diplomacy, Better Environmental Policy Studies, and Transboundary Environmental Agreements explain how this is possible. Through his writing and practice as a mediator with the Cambridge-based not-for-profit Consensus Building Institute (www.cbuilding.org), he has helped to establish the field of public dispute resolution. Breaking Robert's Rules, Breaking the Impasse, Dealing with An Angry Public, Negotiating on Behalf of Others, Built to Win and the Consensus Building Handbook offer insights into the techniques and strategies that have made Professor Susskind a much sought-after trainer and teacher. He has supervised more than 60 doctoral students at MIT and Harvard, many of whom now teach in universities around the world. In 1983, with Roger Fisher, Howard Raiffa and Frank Sander, he founded the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (www.pon.harvard.edu) which continues to play an important part in shaping negotiation and dispute resolution theory.