Course:  PADM 6162, ENVIRONMENTAL ADMINISTRATION

Semester: Fall, 2000

Time:   6:30-9:30, Tuesdays

Location: BC-104

Instructor: Dr. William R. Mangun

Office:  A-134 Brewster Bldg.

Phone:   328-6156

E-mail:   MANGUNW@mail.ecu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-4:30

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.

Course
Description: A study of the conflicts between societal ad 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.  Description and discussion of key energy and environmental regulations.  Analysis of the impacts of energy and environmental legislation on the quality of the environment.  Identification of the roles of federal, state, and local governments in the implementation of environmental laws.

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. One short-essay question examination during the semester (30%).
2. A research paper based on a policy analysis of an important environmental policy issue or problem (due in class November 16 (30% of grade).  Late papers may be assessed a grade reduction.
3. Final Examination (20%).
4. Exercises (10%).
5. Participation (10%).
 

Required
Textbooks:
1. William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning, Managing the Environmental Crisis: Incorporating Competing Values into Natural Resource Administration.  Second edition.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 1999.
2. Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy, 4th edition.  Washington, D.C.:  CQ Press, 2000.
3. Zygmunt J. B. Plater, Robert H. Abrams, William Goldfarb, and Robert L. Graham, Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society.  Second edition.  St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1998.
 
 
Course Outline:

August 22 Introduction to Environmental Policy and  Internet Sources
  Reading: Vig and Kraft, ch. 1.

  Exercise One on Environmental Problem Jurisdiction Assigned
 
August 29 Environmental Rights, Duties, and Values
  Reading: Plater, et al., ch. 22; Mangun and Henning, ch. 1;
 

September 5 Analytic Themes in Environmental Policy and Law
  Reading: Plater, et al., chs. 1 and 5.

  Exercise Two on State Environmental Agencies Assigned
 

September 12 Federalism, Politics, and the Environment
  Reading: Plater, et al., 6; Vig and Kraft, ch. 2, 5, and 6.

  Exercise One on Environmental Problem Jurisdiction Due

  Exercise Two on State Environmental Agencies Due

  Exercise Three on Statutes and Rule Making Assigned

September 19 National Environmental Policy Act
Reading: Plater, et al., ch. 13; Lynton K. Caldwell, The Natiional Environmental Policy Act (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, chs. 1 and 7).

September 26 Administrative Law and the Environment
  Reading: Plater, et al., ch. 7 (and review ch. 5); Vig and Kraft, chs. 7 and 8.

  Exercise Three on Statutes and Rule Making Due

  Exercise Four on Public Participation Assigned (Due upon completion)

October 3 Environmental Administration in a Decisionmaking Context
  Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 3; Vig and Kraft, chs. 9, 10, and 11.

  Exercise Five on Coastal Area Management Act Assigned

October 10 Land Use Policy and Coastal Zone Management
  Reading: Plater, et al., ch. 25; Timothy Beatley, David J. Brower, and Anna K. Schwab, An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994, pp.55-128); and National Ocean Service coastal management report on NOS homepage.

  Exercise Five on Coastal Area Management Act Due

October 17 Fall Break and Take-Home Examination

October 31 Harm-Based Standards and Available Technology Standards
  Reading: Plater, et al., chs. 8 and 9; Mangun and Henning, ch. 8.

  Exercise Six on Watersheds Assigned

November 7 Command and Control and Market Strategies
  Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 8; Plater, et al., chs. 12, 15, and 16.

  Exercise Seven on Watersheds Due

  Exercise Eight on Toxic Release Inventory Assigned

November 14 Life-Cycle Waste Control, Pesticides, and Toxics
  Reading: Plater, et al., chs. 17, 18, and 15; Mangun and Henning, ch. 8 (section on solid and hazardous waste).

  Exercise Eight on Toxic Release Inventory Due

  Exercise Nine on Endangered Species Act Assigned

November 21 Forestry, Grazing, and Fish and Wildlife Resource Management
  Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 5; Plater, et al., chs. 14 and 24; Vig and Kraft, ch. 14.

  Exercise Nine on Endangered Species Act Due

November 28 Soil and Minerals Management and Outdoor Recreation Management
  Reading: Mangun and Henning, chs. 6 and 7.

December 5 Urban and Regional Environmental Management
  Reading: Mangun and Henning, ch. 9 and the U.S. EPA reports on Community-Based Environmental Protection and Brownfields on the internet.

December 12 Final Examination