Public Policy category: 4660 books
The CAFO Reader
The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The CAFO Reader is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.The CAFO Reader brings...
From 'People' to 'Citizen'
Democracy’s Must Take Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From ‘People’ to ‘Citizen’ brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of the difference that democracy makes to the life of a nation. Unlike nationalism, democracy takes our attention away from the past to the future by focusing on the specific concerns...
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution
(Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
In this monograph, Professors Wagner and Tollison examine the important question of whether the United States should adopt a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget. Arguing that the government should be explicit and responsible about how much it spends and how it...
by Gene Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
An examination of Social Awakenment, History-Long Vision, Holistic Social Understanding & Strategies of Transformation
As viewed by five United States Citizens in 2011 Lead author Gene Marshall with coauthors, Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan Richard
Though vast changes...
Chemicals without Harm
Policies for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.
Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even...
Making Environmental Markets Work
The Varieties of Capitalism in Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of the global economy today is the rise of emerging market economies (EMEs). Many states have experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades that has led to an increasing share of global wealth. Such dramatic changes are highly relevant because...
It Takes a Family
Conservatism and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rick Santorum made his name in the 2012 presidential race with his principled conservatism. To understand Santorum’s worldview and vision for America, there is no better source than his New York Times bestselling book, It Takes a Family.
It Takes a Family is one of the most profound...
Cultivating Conscience
How Good Laws Make Good People
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless...
by Kent E. Portney
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply...
by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues...
by L. Hunter Lovins
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On October 5, 2011, L. Hunter Lovins participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Environmental Debt
The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises
For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could...
Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The...
by Sarah O. Ladislaw, Lisa A. Hyland, David L. Pumphrey
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
The ability to access and economically develop vast amounts of America’s unconventional natural gas resources, especially large shale gas formations, has altered our national view on energy and has subsequently changed the discourse at the federal, state, and local levels. Since 2008, when the economic...