EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Course: POLS 3256, Politics of the Environment
Semester: Fall, 2001
Time: 2:00-3:15, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Location: BC-109
Instructor: Dr. William R. Mangun
Office: A-134 Brewster Bldg.
Phone: 328-6156
E-mail: MANGUNW@mail.ecu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-5:30
Attendance: All students are expected to attend class according to university policies. Attendance will be taken and failure to attend class may result in grade reductions in the absence of university approved excuses.
ADA
Compliance: East Carolina University seeks to fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Students requesting accommodations based on a covered disability must go to the Department for Disability Support Services, located in Brewster A-114, to verify the disability before any accommodations can occur. The telephone number is 252-328-6799.
Course
Description: A study of the conflicts between societal and environmental values in the development and implementation of energy and environmental policies. Emphasis is given to citizen participation in the development of environmental laws and regulations that govern our lives. Key environmental and energy policy regulations are identified and discussed. Impacts of energy and environmental legislation on the quality of the environment are analyzed. The roles of federal, state, and local governments in the implementation of environmental laws are identified.
Course
Objectives: Students are expected to acquire sufficient knowledge and insight into energy and environmental legislation and regulations to initiate policy analysis and evaluation of the adequacy of existing laws. Where it is possible, students should also be prepared to make suggestions where change should or could be initiated in energy and environmental policies based on assigned readings, in-class discussion, and outside of class research directed by the instructor.
Course
Requirements:
1.
Three short-essay
question examinations during the semester (45%, 15% each).
2.
A research paper based
on a policy analysis of an important energy or environmental policy issue or
problem (15 pages, due in class November 18 (25% of grade). Late papers may be assessed a grade
reduction.
3.
Final Examination (15%).
4.
Exercises (10%).
5. Participation (5%).
Textbooks:
1. William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning, Managing the Environmental Crisis: Incorporating Competing Values into Natural Resource Administration. Second edition. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
2. Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy, 4th edition. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000.
Course Outline:
August 16 Introduction
August 21 Environmental Policy Tools on the Internet
Exercise One on Federal Environmental Agencies Assigned
August 23 Public Policy and Accountability or “Who’s in Charge?”
Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 1.
Exercise One Due
August 28 Environment and Public Policy
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.1; Vig and Kraft, ch. 4.
Exercise Two on State Environmental Agencies Assigned
August 30 Interest Groups and other Participants in the Environmental Debate
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.2 and Vig and Kraft, chs. 3 and 11.
Exercise Four on Public Participation Assigned (Due upon completion)
September 4 Movie on Population Pressures and Environmental Consequences
Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 15.
Exercise Six on Rulemaking Assigned
September 6 Federalism and Environmental Policy Decentralization
Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 2.
Exercise Two on State Environmental Agencies Due
September 11 Environment, the Presidency, and Congress
Reading: Vig and Kraft, chs. 5 and 6.
Exercise Three on Statutes Assigned
September 13 The Environment and the Courts
Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 7.
Exercise Three Due
September 18 Examination Number One
September 20 Environmental Policy in a Decisionmaking Context (Economics, Values and Risk)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 3; Vig and Kraft, chs. 9 and 10.
Exercise Five on Environmental Problem Jurisdiction Assigned (Due upon completion)
September 25 Environmental Policy and the Bureaucracy
Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 8.
Exercise Six Due
September 27 Energy and Environmental Policy
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.4.
October 2 Energy Policy Implications for the Environment
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.4.
October 4 Renewable Resource Management (Forest and Range)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.5; Vig and Kraft, ch. 14.
October 9 Renewable Resource Management (Fish and Wildlife Policy)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.5.
October 11 Renewable Resource Management (Fish and Wildlife Policy II)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.5.
October 16 Fall Break
October 18 Renewable Resource Management (Water Resources)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.5.
October 23 Nonrenewable Resource Management (Soil)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.6.
October 25 Examination Number Two
October 30 Nonrenewable Resource Management (Mineral Policy)
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.6.
Exercise Seven on Air Pollution Assigned
November 1 Air Pollution Control Policy and Politics
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.8 (air pollution section); Vig and Kraft, ch. 13.
Exercise Seven Due
November 6 Air Pollution Control Policy and Politics
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.8.
Exercise Eight on Watersheds Assigned
November 8 Water Pollution Control Policy and Politics
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.8 (water pollution section).
Exercise Eight Due
November 13 Water Pollution Control Policy and Politics
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.8.
Exercise Nine on Toxics Released in Your Neighborhood Assigned
November 15 Examination Number Three
November 20 Solid and Hazardous Waste Policy and Politics
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.8 (solid waste section).
Exercise Nine Due
Exercise Ten on Treaties Assigned
November 22 Thanksgiving Day Break
November 27 Urban and Regional Environmental Policy
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.9; ch. 12.
November 29 International Environmental Policy
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch.10; Vig and Kraft, chs. 16 and 17.
Exercise Ten Due
December 4 International Environmental Policy
Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 10; Vig and Kraft, ch. 15.
December 13 Final Examination 2:00-4:00
Have a Nice Christmas, But Watch Out for the Acid Deposition and Heavy Metals in the Icicles!