Table of Contents

POLICY OVERVIEW: History of Environmental Movement. Environmental Policy Concepts. Global Environmental Initiatives and Protocols. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS AND DECISION-MAKING: Sustainability. International Environmental Impact Assessment Processes. Environmental Decision-Making: Theories and Processes. Environmental Management Systems. ENVIRONMENTAL EHTICS AND ECONOMICS: Environmental Ethics. Environmental Economics. CRITICAL GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: Water Wars – The Global Water Shortage Crisis. Peak Oil and Peak Resources Crises. Peak Food Crisis. Global Climate Change. Global Population: A Socioeconomic Crisis. The Sixth Extension? Nuclear Energy – Environmental Problem or Solution?

About the Author

Charles H. Eccleston, CEP has over 20 years experience in developing environmental and energy-related policies and analyses. He prepares Environmental Impact Statements to evaluate impacts of projects and policies.

Reviews

"[the authors] offer the reader a balanced skill-set, including concepts, principles, and practices for developing and implementing more effective and proactive environmental policy responses to the Earth's burgeoning environmental problems ! introduces the reader, in a concrete yet instructive way, to the major ethical, philosophical and economic principle theories underlying the current environmental debate." --Patricia Romero Lankao Ph.D., Deputy Director at the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder CO. Previously Tenured Professor in Mexico-City, Mexico "! Eccleston and March bring a reasoned perspective to the world's most prominent environmental issues ! [the book] celebrates how far we have come in our relationship with the natural world while at the same time bringing forth the immediacy of our global circumstances." --Ron Deverman, President, National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) "! Anyone who needs to hit the ground running in the practice of environmental policy needs to read this book" --Tim Cohen, is a "Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff," U.S. Sandia National Laboratories