1. Politics, Environment, and Sustainability
G. Tyler Miller’s
Living in the Environment
14th Edition
Chapter 27

2. Key Concepts Democracies and environmental problems
Making environmental policy
Environmental groups and their opponents
Global environmental policies

3. Environmental and Political Challenges
Shifts in environmental concerns
Concerns over biodiversity
Shift to global view
Concerns over climatic changes
Pollution problems in developing countries
Concerns over poverty
Concerns over synthetic organic chemicals

4. Politics and Environmental Policy
Constitutional democracy
Branches of government with checks and balances
Elections
Special-interest groups
Profit-making organizations
Nonprofit, nongovernment organizations

5. Factors Hindering Democracies in Dealing with Environmental Problems
Short time between elections shift focus to short-term issues
Elected officials spend much time raising money to be reelected
Politicians often lack ecological literacy

6. Developing, Influencing, and Implementing Environmental Policy
Humility Principle
Reversibility Principle
Precautionary Principle
Prevention Principle
Polluter Pays Principle
Integrative Principle
Public Participation Principle
Human Rights Principle
Environmental Justice Principle

7. Case Study: Environmental Policy in the United States
Fig p. 613

8. Environmental Law Statutory law Administrative laws Common law
Civil suits
Nuisance
Class action suits
Negligence
Statues of Limitation
Mediation
SLAPPs

9. Environmental Groups and Claims
Grassroots groups
Global groups
Specific issue focus groups
Raise understanding or awareness of issues
Accomplishments

10. Opponents of Environmental Groups and their Claims
Threatened by environmental regulations
Threats to private property rights and jobs
Local and state governments resent unfunded federal regulations
Businesses and individuals resent complex and expensive federal regulations
View environmental regulations as unnecessary, ineffective and too costly

11. Global Environmental Policy
Military security, economic security
Environmental security
International organizations and meetings
International agreements
Effects of GATT and the WTO