Judith A Layzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2250908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Layzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Layzer |
| SIGNATURE | LAYZER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Open for Business
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection. Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in nee…
Natural Experiments
Natural experiments
Conserving the Sonoran Desert in Pima County, Arizona
The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP) is an initiative of Pima County, Arizona to substantially conserve and restore its biological diversity. After being implemented, the plan is expected to protect nearly 600,000 acres of high-value habitat in sound biological configuration and rehabilitate riparian areas. It not only focuses on the conservation of land through the development approval process but also on the acquisition of large areas of…
Fish Stories
Once the poster child for government‐sponsored overfishing, New England by 2005 had become a fishery conservation success story. This article develops and deploys a problem‐definition framework to explain the dramatic shift from a permissive to a protective fishery management regime in New England. I argue that neither new and improved scientific information nor pressure from powerful commercial interests caused government officials to modify the…
Communities and the Environment
Citizen Participation and Government Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
This article uses a single, critical case to assess the plausibility of hypotheses that emerge from the literature on civic environmentalism. In particular, scholars have argued that local, collaborative environmental decision making is likely to yield solutions that are both more durable and environmentally superior to those generated by more conventional policymahing processes. The analysis suggests, however, that such outcomes are unlikely in …
Communities and the Environment
Fish Stories
Once the poster child for government‐sponsored overfishing, New England by 2005 had become a fishery conservation success story. This article develops and deploys a problem‐definition framework to explain the dramatic shift from a permissive to a protective fishery management regime in New England. I argue that neither new and improved scientific information nor pressure from powerful commercial interests caused government officials to modify the…
Citizen Participation and Government Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
This article uses a single, critical case to assess the plausibility of hypotheses that emerge from the literature on civic environmentalism. In particular, scholars have argued that local, collaborative environmental decision making is likely to yield solutions that are both more durable and environmentally superior to those generated by more conventional policymahing processes. The analysis suggests, however, that such outcomes are unlikely in …
Communities and the Environment
Citizen Participation and Government Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
This article uses a single, critical case to assess the plausibility of hypotheses that emerge from the literature on civic environmentalism. In particular, scholars have argued that local, collaborative environmental decision making is likely to yield solutions that are both more durable and environmentally superior to those generated by more conventional policymahing processes. The analysis suggests, however, that such outcomes are unlikely in …
Fish Stories
Once the poster child for government‐sponsored overfishing, New England by 2005 had become a fishery conservation success story. This article develops and deploys a problem‐definition framework to explain the dramatic shift from a permissive to a protective fishery management regime in New England. I argue that neither new and improved scientific information nor pressure from powerful commercial interests caused government officials to modify the…
Natural Experiments
Natural experiments
Conserving the Sonoran Desert in Pima County, Arizona
The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP) is an initiative of Pima County, Arizona to substantially conserve and restore its biological diversity. After being implemented, the plan is expected to protect nearly 600,000 acres of high-value habitat in sound biological configuration and rehabilitate riparian areas. It not only focuses on the conservation of land through the development approval process but also on the acquisition of large areas of…
Open for Business
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection. Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in nee…
American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ecosystem management (2 works)