Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1309890
Chad J. McGuire
ABSTRACT This article uses the history and current state of publicly subsidized coastal flood insurance policy in the United States to highlight how perceptions of risk can be influenced by past and current policy practices. For the purposes of this article, public flood insurance premiums are used as a proxy for risk; higher premiums suggest greater risk, while lower premiums suggest lowered risk. By using coastal flood insurance as a proxy for flood risk, subjective factors of risk are highlighted and contextualized. The goal is to provide the reader with an example of the importance of considering both objective and subjective risk factors when developing and implementing climate change policies that make investments today to protect against future harm.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2018.1426945
F. Dirrigl, R. Gaulke
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1275709
Jeffrey W. Hanlon, Tomás Olivier, Edella Schlager
ABSTRACT In 1997, an unlikely group of governments, nonprofit organizations, and interest groups signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to share governance of the adjacent Catskill and Delaware watersheds in the Catskills mountains of New York. At stake was the quality of the source for 90% of New York City’s municipal water, and the livelihoods and interests of the communities in the watersheds. The agreement was celebrated as an example of how regional approaches to water management may be possible in ways that promote equity, power sharing, economic growth, and resource protection, but has not since been assessed along those terms since a National Research Council report in 2000. Using interviews with governance actors, meeting minutes from a key decision-making forum, legal and policy documents, and 2015 survey data of policy actors, this article presents a retrospective of the first 18 years following the signing of the MOA to identify keys to its function as a living and changing policy system in the face of political and ecological change. As an example of adaptive co-management, the case is a rich and crucial test for large-scale regional watershed management, and presents insights for other large city watersheds.
1997年，一群看似不可能的政府、非营利组织和利益集团签署了一份协议备忘录(MOA)，共同治理位于纽约卡茨基尔山脉附近的卡茨基尔和特拉华流域。这关系到纽约市90%市政用水的水源质量，以及流域社区的生计和利益。该协议被誉为一个范例，说明了区域水资源管理方法在促进公平、权力分享、经济增长和资源保护方面是可能的，但自2000年国家研究委员会(National Research Council)发布报告以来，就没有按照这些条件进行评估。本文通过对治理主体的访谈、重要决策论坛的会议纪要、法律和政策文件以及2015年政策主体的调查数据，回顾了《备忘录》签署后的前18年，以找出在政治和生态变化的背景下，《备忘录》作为一个活生生的、不断变化的政策体系发挥作用的关键。作为适应性协同管理的范例，该案例为大规模区域流域管理提供了丰富而关键的测试，并为其他大型城市流域提供了借鉴。
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1284528
Oluwole Daramola, PhD, lectures in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As an academic, his research encompasses environmental studies and community participationwith particular interest in issues that can result in environmentally sustainable behaviors. He has published several articles in highly rated journals with international readership. He is also a Registered Town Planner in Nigeria with professional accomplishments.
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14660466.2017.1284528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2017.1284528","url":null,"abstract":"Oluwole Daramola, PhD, lectures in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As an academic, his research encompasses environmental studies and community participationwith particular interest in issues that can result in environmentally sustainable behaviors. He has published several articles in highly rated journals with international readership. He is also a Registered Town Planner in Nigeria with professional accomplishments.","PeriodicalId":45250,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Practice","volume":"222 1","pages":"63 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75628519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1275680
P. Olawuni, O. Daramola
ABSTRACT This study investigated residential characteristics as determinants of environmental sanitation behavior in Ibadan, Nigeria. The municipality was stratified into three residential zones (core, transition, and suburb). Three political wards were selected in each of the residential zones for questionnaire administration. Using systematic sampling technique, every 20th residential building was selected in the selected wards. Questionnaire was administered in 1,082 residential buildings with a success rate of 84.8% comprising 436 in the core, 351 in the transition, and 295 in the suburb based on the building density in the zones. Focus was on residents with minimum age of 18 years. Findings revealed that environmental sanitation behavior is influenced by residential characteristics such as place of residence, gender, educational attainment, length of residence, household size, and house tenure in Ibadan. All these together can enhance environmental sanitation behavior and preserve sanitary urban environment.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1275716
Doug Huxley
ABSTRACT After two draft documents and more than seven years, in the August 5, 2016 edition of the Federal Register, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published final guidance for federal agencies to incorporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change into National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews. Questions and legal opinions on the final guidance are plentiful. Is the final guidance consistent with existing case law, is it binding, will it adequately protect agencies and project proponents from litigation, or does it require agencies to force reductions on project proponents? Questions and opinions aside, this article focuses on the practical implications of the final guidance—how environmental professionals can prepare NEPA reviews that align with its spirit and intent, meaningfully assess potential impacts and compare alternatives, and maintain consistency with established GHG accounting principles.
{"title":"A GHG management professional’s take: CEQ’s guidance for climate change and NEPA 1","authors":"Doug Huxley","doi":"10.1080/14660466.2017.1275716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2017.1275716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After two draft documents and more than seven years, in the August 5, 2016 edition of the Federal Register, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published final guidance for federal agencies to incorporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change into National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews. Questions and legal opinions on the final guidance are plentiful. Is the final guidance consistent with existing case law, is it binding, will it adequately protect agencies and project proponents from litigation, or does it require agencies to force reductions on project proponents? Questions and opinions aside, this article focuses on the practical implications of the final guidance—how environmental professionals can prepare NEPA reviews that align with its spirit and intent, meaningfully assess potential impacts and compare alternatives, and maintain consistency with established GHG accounting principles.","PeriodicalId":45250,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Practice","volume":"8 1","pages":"56 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90995820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1275658
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Vladimir Russo
ABSTRACT The Okavango region is currently part of a transboundary project extending to three neighboring countries—Angola, Namibia, and Botswana. This article discusses the unequal trajectory and present conditions for such cross-border cooperation, with a particular focus on Angola. Angola’s disadvantageous position is above all due to the lasting effects of war that adversely hindered the development of structures and resources to engage in such joint programs. The central argument is that the inequalities pose particular challenges to the country to accompany the pace of the neighboring countries. The article looks at the fragilities focusing on institutional resources, Angolan policy background, existing dedicated institutions, and human resources, as they are major concerns for post-war reconstruction. On the other hand, it poses questions regarding resilience effects on local level livelihoods and on the future environmental management of the Okavango. This article is based on a literature and documental review and on data from fieldwork where local communities have to rely more heavily on the available natural resources in absence of others.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14660466.2017.1275692
Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
ABSTRACT Rulemaking is an integral component of environmental policy at both the federal and state level; however, the role states play in implementing federal rules is often overlooked. States frequently have to devise their own plans for implementation—subject of course to federal oversight—and this is the case with the new Clean Power Plan rule proposed in 2014 and finalized in 2015. This exploratory research examines the newspaper coverage of proposed Clean Power Plan rule in Montana and Ohio in an effort to surmise how these two states will proceed with implementation. To investigate these responses to the proposed rule, we utilize Nisbet’s (2010) framework for science-policy debates in the media to conduct a content analysis and identify the driving frames from the ten leading newspapers in each state. Our analysis concludes that although the leading frame in both states is economic development and competitiveness, Montana seeks a pathway forward, while Ohio wants a two-year freeze on renewable energy efforts. These findings suggest the rich potential for careful study of the importance of administrative processes at the state level and beyond.
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