SYLLABUS. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: POLITICS & PLANNING ENV/UEP 94 Spring Semester 2009

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1 SYLLABUS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: POLITICS & PLANNING ENV/UEP 94 Spring Semester 2009 NOTES: Please read selections in the order in which they are listed. Readings listed below generally include relevant endnotes, if any please feel free to skim them. Date of this version: January 9, 2009 Class #1: Wed., Jan. 14 Introduction to the Course Reading: Vig & Kraft: Ch. 1, pp (Introduction) Thompson, Richard, Graduating to Green; From Design Contests to Dorm Prizes, Students Nudge their Campuses To Be Eco- Friendly, Boston Globe, City Weekly, Apr. 8, 2007, p. 1 [Blackboard]. Rimer, Sara, How Green Is the College? Time the Showers, New York Times, May 26, 2008, p. A1 [Blackboard]. Introduction to the course Policy and planning, an introduction Brief environmental history Other: Please bring to class a brief item for example, a news item that illustrates an environmental policy issue. Be prepared to say what the issue is, why it s important, who the major interest groups are, and what type of policymaking would help to address it. (Please write your name on your item; I will collect all of them at the end of class.) No Class Monday (Martin Luther King Day)

2 Class #2: Wed., Jan. 21 Introduction: The Policy Process Layzer: Ch. 1, pp (Introduction) Layzer: Ch. 2, pp (The Nation Tackles Pollution: EPA and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts) Lipton, Eric and Gardiner Harris, In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulations, New York Times, Sept. 16, 2007, p. A1 [Blackboard] What is policymaking? How policy works The standard model Alternative models Theory vs. practice Class #3: Mon., Jan. 26 Introduction: Power Centers Horizontal Vig & Kraft: Ch. 5, pp (Presidential Leadership and the Environment) Vig & Kraft: Ch. 6, pp (Environmental Policy in Congress) Janofsky, Michael, Pentagon Asks Lawmakers to Loosen Environmental Laws, New York Times, May 11, 2005, p. A16 [Blackboard] Kolbert, Elizabeth, Comment: Midnight Hour (Talk of the Town), The New Yorker, Nov. 24, 2008, pp [Blackboard] Policymaking at the federal level Presidential and Congressional policymaking The shifting balance of power Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 2 of 12

3 Class #4: Wed., Jan. 28 Reading: Introduction: Power Centers Vertical Vig & Kraft: Ch. 2, pp (Power to the States) Roosevelt, Margot, California and 15 Other States Seek To Overturn Agency s Ruling on Tailpipe Emissions, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 3, 2008, p. B1 [Blackboard] Alperovitz, Gar, California Split (op-ed), New York Times, Feb. 10, 2007, p. A15 [Blackboard] Class #5: Mon., Feb. 2 The environmental implications of federalism Competition among the states The states as laboratories of democracy International policymaking from the bottom up Introduction: Courts and Agencies Vig & Kraft: Ch. 8, pp (Improving Regulation at EPA) Vig & Kraft: Ch. 7, pp (Environmental Policy in the Courts) Dwyer, Jim, At a New York Seminary, a Green Idea Gets Tangled in Red Tape, New York Times, Nov. 22, 2008, p. A17 [Blackboard] Liptak, Adam, Experts Hired To Shed Light Can Leave U.S. Courts in Dark, New York Times, Aug. 12, 2008, p. A1 [Blackboard] Role(s) of agencies What courts do, and don t do Science and policymaking, a first look Common law, statutory law and regulation Basic types of policymaking (regulatory and otherwise) Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 3 of 12

4 Class #6: Wed., Feb. 4 Class #7: Mon., Feb. 9 Topic #1: Environmental Justice, Risk and Hazardous Waste In the Matter of Love Canal Layzer: Ch. 3, pp (Love Canal) Mazur, Allan, A Hazardous Inquiry The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 1998), ( The Scientific Controversy, Reconciling Accounts (part), The Basics of Toxicology ), pp , , [Reader] Sunstein, Cass A., Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge U. Press, 2002), pp (from Ch. 4, This Month s Risk ) [Blackboard] Navarro, Mireya, A Problem Rises to the Surface in Greenpoint, New York Times, Dec. 8, 2008, p. A23 [Blackboard] What happened at Love Canal? The connection between political crisis and policy opportunity Policy change and punctuated equilibrium Superfund redistribution vs. liability Relating science, risk and equity The first assignment the Issue Analysis is due this week on Fri., Feb. 6, by 6 p.m. (by ) Topic #1: Environmental Justice, Risk and Hazardous Waste Risk Vig & Kraft: Ch. 10, pp (Risk-Based Decision Making) Ackerman, Frank and Lisa Heinzerling, Priceless On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New York: The New Press, 2004), Ch. 6, Dreadful Events, pp [Reader] Slovic, Paul, Perception of Risk, Science, vol. 236, pp (April 17, 1987) [Blackboard] Bolling, Reuben, Tom the Dancing Bug Culture of Life Blow-Out Sale [editorial cartoon] (2005) [Blackboard] Types of risk Ways to assess risk Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 4 of 12

5 At stake numbers and values Class #8: Wed., Feb. 11 Topic #1: Environmental Justice, Risk and Hazardous Waste Environmental Justice Vig & Kraft: Ch. 11, pp (Environmental Justice) Blum, Elizabeth D., Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class and Gender in Environmental Activism (Lawrence, Kan.: U. Press of Kansas, 2008), pp , [Reader] Brown, Phil and Edwin J. Mikkelsen, No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia and Community Action (Berkeley, Calif.: U. Calif. Press, 1990), pp , [Blackboard] Faber, Daniel R. and Eric J. Kreig, Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pp. iii-vi, 12-19, (skim), 43-53, 54-59, at: pdf What is environmental justice? Connecting equity to efficiency in environmental policy Siting locally undesirable land uses (LULUs) process and outcome Ways to think about equity Popular epidemiology and (vs.?) professional science Class #9: Wed., Feb. 18 Presidents Day Monday s schedule moves to Thursday TBA Class #10: Thurs., Feb. 19 Topic #1: Environmental Justice, Risk and Hazardous Waste Guest Speaker: Guest Speaker: Julian Agyeman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UEP Topic #1: Policy Forum Reading: Please carefully review policy briefs and formulate questions Policy Forum Advocates: Group #1 Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 5 of 12

6 Analysts: Group #4 Class #11: Mon., Feb. 23 Topic #2: Ecosystems, Species and Energy Development The Spotted Owl: Of Life and Livelihoods Layzer: Ch. 8, pp (Saving the Northern Spotted Owl) Barringer, Felicity, New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West, New York Times, Oct. 18, 2007, p. A20 [Blackboard] Yardley, William, Timber (and its Revenues) Decline, and Libraries Suffer, New York Times, May 5, 2007, p. A9 [Blackboard] Johnson, Kirk, As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land, New York Times, Oct. 13, 2007, p. A1 (text and graphics in separate files) [Blackboard] Species protection in the U.S. Jobs vs. the Environment How real a conflict? Species vs. habitat parallel pathways? Class #12: Wed., Feb. 25 First Exam (in class) Class #13: Mon., March 2 Topic #2: Ecosystems, Species and Energy Development Environmental Advocacy Meets Wise Use Vig & Kraft: Ch. 4, pp (Environmental NGOs) Layzer: Ch. 13, pp (Backlash) Barringer, Felicity, Paper Sets Off a Debate on Environmentalism s Future, New York Times, Feb. 6, 2005, sec. 1, p. 18 [Blackboard] Sorkin, Andrew Ross, A Buyout Deal that Has Many Shades of Green, New York Times, Feb. 26, 2007, p. A1 [Blackboard] Janofsky, Michael, When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation; Evangelical Groups Join Call for Tougher Environmental Laws, New York Times, Nov. 7, 2005, p. A17 [Blackboard] Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 6 of 12

7 Elliott, Dan, Four Indicted in 98 Firebombing at Vail (Associated Press), Boston Globe, May 20, 2006, p. A2 [Blackboard] Recommended: Shellenberger, Michael and Ted Nordhaus, The Death of Environmentalism (October, 2004) [Blackboard] Roles of NGOs Property rights why they matter Policy entrepreneurs and policy development Class #14: Wed., March 4 Topic #2: Ecosystems, Species and Energy Development Environmental Ethics Toles, Tom, Compromise Position on Habitat Preservation, cartoon (1997) [Blackboard] Pojman, Louis P., Global Environmental Ethics (Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub. Co., 2000, Ch. 8, pp (Does Nature Have Objective Value?) [Reader] Pojman, Global Environmental Ethics, Ch. 10, pp (Contemporary Environmental Philosophy: Biocentric Egalitarianism) [Reader] Radin, Charles A., God s Green Earth; What Environmentalists and Evangelicals Have in Common, Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 2006, p. C1 [Blackboard] Ethics of ecosystem protection Theories of the rights of (living, non-human) nature Class #15: Mon., March 9 Topic #2: Policy Forum Reading: Please carefully review policy briefs and formulate questions Policy Forum Advocates: Group #2 Analysts: Group #3 Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 7 of 12

8 Class #16: Wed., March 11 Reading: Topic #3: Green Planning, Transportation and Urban Policy The Case of Portland, Oregon Layzer: Ch. 17, pp (Urban Sprawl and Growth Management in Portland, Oregon) Flint, Anthony, The Virtues of Sprawl, Boston Globe, Oct. 2, 2005, p. D1 [Blackboard] Scott, Janny, In a Still-Growing City, Some Neighbors Say Slow Down, New York Times, Oct. 10, 2005, p. B2 [Blackboard] Yardley, William, Anger Drives Property Rights Measures, New York Times, Oct. 8, 2006, sec. 1, p. 34 [Blackboard] Thinking Locally: Environmental policy at the community level Sprawl and its discontents The elements of smart growth Could it happen here? Spring Break: Week of March Class #17: Mon., March 23 Topic #3: Green Planning, Transportation and Urban Policy Sustainability and the City Vig & Kraft: Ch. 3, pp (Environmental Sustainability and Urban Life in America) Hempel, Lamont C., Conceptual and Analytical Challenges in Building Sustainable Communities, Ch. 2, pp , in Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Toward Sustainable Communities Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999) [Reader] Owen, David, Green Manhattan, New Yorker, Oct. 18, 2004 [Blackboard] DePalma, Anthony, Never Sleeps, But It Douses the Lights, New York Times, Dec. 11, 2005, sec. 1, p. 55 [Blackboard] Gertner, Jon, Playing SimCity for Real, New York Times, Mar. 18, 2007 (Real Estate Magazine) [Blackboard] Cities and other green organisms Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 8 of 12

9 Sustainable development and smart growth The New Urbanism and the new settlement Class #18: Wed., March 25 Topic #3: Green Planning, Transportation and Urban Policy Other Types of Upstream Intervention Reading: Vig & Kraft: Ch. 12, pp (Greening of Industry) Kolbert, Elizabeth, Greening the Ghetto, The New Yorker, Jan. 12, 2009, pp [Blackboard] Impacts of development Green industry and regulatory leadership Place and private enterprise (the Wal-Mart question) Class #19: Topic #3: Policy Forum Mon., March 30 Reading: Please carefully review policy briefs and formulate questions Policy Forum Advocates: Group #3 Analysts: Group #2 Class #20: Wed., April 1 TBA Topic #4: Climate Change, Markets and International Relations Guest Speaker: Barbara M. Parmenter, Ph.D., Lecturer, UEP Class #21: Topic #4: Climate Change, Markets and International Relations Mon., April 6 The Problem of the Global Commons Layzer: Ch. 11, pp (Climate Change) Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 9 of 12

10 Vig & Kraft: Ch. 13, pp (Climate Policy on the Installment Plan) Revkin, Andrew C., Poorest Nations Will Bear Brunt as World Warms, New York Times, Apr. 1, 2007, p. A1 [Blackboard] Introduction to the issue and its major policy themes Class #22: Topic #4: Climate Change, Markets and International Relations Wed., April 8 Markets and the Environment Bolling, Reuben, Tom the Dancing Bug Tales of Market-Driven Crimes [editorial cartoon] (1992) [Blackboard] Vig & Kraft: Ch. 9, pp (Economics, Incentives and Environmental Policy) Kruger, Joseph A. and William A. Pizer, Greenhouse Gas Trading in Europe, Environment vol. 46, No. 8 (Oct. 2004), pp [Blackboard] Kanter, James and Jad Mouawad, Pipe Dreams and Profits, New York Times, Dec. 11, 2008, p. B1 [Blackboard] Sandel, Michael, It s Immoral to Buy the Right to Pollute, New York Times, Dec. 15, 1997, p. A29 [Blackboard] Sunstein, Cass A., Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge U. Press, 2002), pp (from Ch. 8, Of Courts and Law: Cost-Benefit Default Principles ) [Blackboard] Theory and practice of markets in bads U.S. acid rain emissions allowance trading program a major model European Union GHG trading ramping up Are markets wrong? Class #23: Mon., April 13 Second Exam (in class) Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 10 of 12

11 Class #24: Topic #4: Climate Change, Markets and International Relations Wed., April 15 International Cooperation and Challenge Reading: Betsill, Michele M., Global Climate Change Policy: Making Progress or Spinning Wheels? Ch. 6, pp , in Regina S. Axelrod, David Leonard Downie and Norman J. Vig, eds., The Global Environment Institutions. Law, and Policy (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005) [Blackboard] Eizenstat, Stuart E., Seeing the Climate Policy for the Trees, oped, New York Times, Nov. 4, 2006, p. A27 [Blackboard] Socolow, Robert H. and Stephen W. Pacala, A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check, Scientific American (Sept. 2006), pp [Blackboard] Designing a GHG market-based emissions reduction system Emissions sources and sinks Trading with the developing world Carbon wedges the long-term view Class #25: Wed., April 22 [Earth Day] Monday is Patriots Day; no class Topic #4: Policy Forum Reading: Please carefully review policy briefs and formulate questions Policy Forum Advocates: Group #4 Analysts: Group #1 Class #26: Mon., April 27 Wrap-Up and Concluding Thoughts Vig & Kraft: Ch. 17, pp ( Toward Sustainable Development? ) Layzer: Ch. 18, pp ( Politics, Values and Policy Change ) Unfinished business Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 11 of 12

12 Concluding remarks How do policy, politics and planning fit together? What have we learned? Environmental Policy ENV/UEP 94 Syllabus 2009 Page 12 of 12