ENWC413 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wildlife, Trust Law, Reading Company
12 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
ENWC413
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ENWC413 Wildlife Policy and Administration Lecture 1
• What is environmental Policy?
o Many interpretations and interpreters
▪ Policy: the broad strategic statement of intent to accomplished aims
▪ La: “A specific course of action designed to achiee a desired outcome
o Problems: Few policies are precisely, explicitly, or rationally formulated and they fail to
capture why environmental law maters
▪ Everything is interconnected, and answers are not concrete. It is COMPLEX!!
o We need to recognize:
▪ Process and product are integral components of policy
▪ Competition and conflict are fundamental
▪ Evolving, non-rational, and non-linear
▪ Organizational context is a major influence
▪ Dynamics social process with different psychological and sociological
dimensions
▪ Outside influence of public and special interest groups
o Four Factors
▪ Research
▪ Economic
▪ Cultural
▪ Geographical
• Reading 1 Notes:
o Policy is a broad strategic statement of intent to accomplish aims
▪ A specific course of action designed to achieve a desired outcome
o Paradigm is a n integrated model of understanding use to organize thoughts and
actions.
• Policy Process:
• Initiation Phase: The problem is first apprehended,
then explored. Evaluates the importance and
determines whether it merits attention and
resources
• Estimation: examination of cost benefits and risks
associated with alternative definitions and
responses to the policy problems
• Selection: Decisions, often as much a consequence
of non-rational and ideological factors because of
technical calculations and estimation
• Implementation: defined course of action that may
or may not bear a close relationship to the well-
ordered policy recommendation organization
• Evaluation: Questions concerning policy effectiveness, efficiency
and equity are often raised and examined
Wildlife
Policy
State Agencies
Federal
Bureaucracy
Non-
Goverment
Organizations
Legislature
Media
Resource-
Based Industry
Utilizing Public
General Public
Judiciary
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
• Termination: to eliminate or adjust policies, programs and organizations based on notions of function,
relevancy, necessity and redundancy.
• Major variable sets in the wildlife policy process:
o Biophysical
o Valuational
o Authority/ Property
o Institutional decision making
o Basic wildlife values
o Naturalistic
o Humanistic
o Scientific
o Utilitarian
o Ecological
o Moralistic
o Aesthic
o Dominionistic
o Negativistic
o Neutralistic
• Constraints on the policy process:
o Must be recognized in a timely fashion
o Understood
o Defined in such a manner that remedial measures can be taken
• Education: Young wildlife professions should be taught
o Historical themes in resource policy formation and execution as a basis for
understanding current and future dynamics
o Projects that force students into contact with people of conflicting views
o Analytical concepts and techniques that sharpen interpretations and permit their
generalization to a broad range of problems
o Development for written and oral communications
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Enwc413 wildlife policy and administration lecture 1: what is environmental policy, many interpretations and interpreters, policy: the broad strategic statement of intent to accomplished aims. La(cid:449): a specific course of action designed to achie(cid:448)e a desired outcome: problems: few policies are precisely, explicitly, or rationally formulated and they fail to capture why environmental law maters, everything is interconnected, and answers are not concrete. Initiation phase: the problem is first apprehended, then explored. Evaluates the importance and determines whether it merits attention and resources. Legislature: estimation: examination of cost benefits and risks associated with alternative definitions and responses to the policy problems, selection: decisions, often as much a consequence of non-rational and ideological factors because of technical calculations and estimation. Implementation: defined course of action that may or may not bear a close relationship to the well- ordered policy recommendation organization. Enwc413 wildlife policy and administration lecture 2: major variables needed in public policy.
