Struggling with Integrated Environmental Policy
The EPA Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4075136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Odelia Funke (Environmental Protection Agency, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 137-161 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00557.x |
| OpenAlex | W2070033687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Because of the interrelating, cross-media character of many environmental problems, development of comprehensive and coherent policies for their abatement or management is difficult. This is particularly true where, as in the United States, there has been a strong tendency to focus on single issues of complex problems. Nowhere is this problem of policy and program integration more difficult than in the Environmental Protection Agency. This article uses the lead contamination issue to illustrate the obstacles to integration of policy and procedure even for a single environmental pollutant. Given the holistic and ramifying character of environmental problems, how can appropriate policies and regulations be developed in a political system characterized by sectoral, specialized structure and special interest clientele? At the time of this writing, the effects of elevating the EPA to a cabinet level department cannot fully be foreseen. The expansion of EPA to the administration of nonregulatory responsibilities will doubtless bring new problems of policy to this agency. Problems of program integration may increase unless EPA is authorized to devise and adapt more effective integrative procedures
Business · Design for the Environment · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental policy · Environmental resource management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |