Environmental Program Evaluation: A PrimerG. J. Knaap, Tschangho John Kim This pioneer work in a complex, interdisciplinary, and still-developing field explores the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to evaluating environmental programs. Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, management, planning, sociology, political science, and public administration provide coherent, integrated perspectives on the task of environmental program evaluation. The essays are organized thematically, covering institutional, scientific, economic, and administrative topics. The volume will be a valuable text for practitioners, regulators, policymakers, and scholars in the fields of program evaluation, environmental policy, and environmental science. A volume in the series The Environment and the Human Condition |
Contents
Environmental Program Evaluation Framing the Subject | 1 |
Limitations and Innovative | 45 |
The Case of the EPAs | 61 |
Environmental Program Evaluation in an Intergovernmental | 86 |
The Role of Chemical Indexes in Environmental Program | 129 |
A LongNeglected Aspect of Environmental | 148 |
The Search for Environmental | 176 |
JOHN B BRADEN AND CHANGGIL KIM | 203 |
Observations | 238 |
Endogenous Risk and Environmental Program Evaluation | 255 |
A Data Envelopment | 270 |
and Policy Change MICHAEL E KRAFT | 293 |
Environmental Program Evaluation Promise | 347 |
Contributors | 361 |
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