Judith A. Layzer was professor of environmental policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until her death in 2015. She earned a Ph.D. in political science at MIT. After four years at Middlebury College in Vermont she returned to MIT, where she taught courses in science and politics in environmental policymaking, ecosystem-based management, food systems and the environment, urban sustainability, energy and environmental politics, and public policy. Layzer's research focused on several aspects of U.S. environmental politics, including the roles of science, values, and storytelling in environmental politics, as well as on the effectiveness of different approaches to environmental planning and management. A recent project asked: Do urban sustainability initiatives significantly reduce cities' ecological footprints? And which aspects of "green cities" are most effective at reducing cities' environmental impacts? In addition to The Environmental Case, Layzer was the author of Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment (2008) and Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (2012). Layzer was an athlete as well as a scholar. In addition to having finished five Boston marathons, she shared nine national championship titles and one world championship trophy with her teammates on Lady Godiva, formerly Boston's premier women's Ultimate Frisbee team. Judith A. Layzer 1961-2015
Chapter 1
A Policymaking Framework: Defining Problems and Portraying Solutions in U.S. Environmental Politics Part I
Regulating Polluters Chapter 2
The Nation Tackles Air and Water Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts Chapter 3
Love Canal: Hazardous Waste and the Politics of Fear Chapter 4
Ecosystem-Based Management in the Chesapeake Bay Chapter 5
Market-Based Solutions: A Forgotten Success Story Part II
History, Changing Values, and Natural Resource Management Chapter 6
Oil Versus Wilderness in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Chapter 7
Federal Grazing Policy: Some Things Never Change Chapter 8
Jobs Versus the Environment: Saving the Northern Spotted Owl Chapter 9
Playground or Paradise? Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park Chapter 10
Lessons from the Fish: Crisis and Recovery in New England Part III
New Issues, New Politics Chapter 11
Climate Change: The Crisis of our Time Chapter 12
Cape Wind: If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When? Chapter 13
Fracking Wars: Local and State Responses to Unconventional Shale Gas Development Chapter 14
Making Trade-Offs: Urban Sprawl and the Evolving System of Growth Management in Portland, Oregon Chapter 15
The Salton Sea: A Desert Mirage Chapter 16
Conclusions: Politics, Values, and Environmental Policy Change
