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What is the policy development process? - Correct answer
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✔Agenda setting, policy development, policy implementation,
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policy evaluation and back to setting
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5 Acts of Environmental Legislation from the 70's - Correct
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answer ✔NEPA |!
CAA
CWA
ESA
Toxic Substance Control Act
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How has attitude toward envuronmental resource management
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changed over the past decades? - Correct answer ✔More holistic
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and ecosystem based thinking, less exploitative, more forward
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thinking and adaptive |! |!
Explain the concept of federalism? - Correct answer ✔A system
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where government power is divided by states and federal,
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sharing responsibilities. Feds set general rule and States enforce.
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What is Agenda Setting? - Correct answer ✔Agenda setting is
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selecting a problem and high power people with similar political
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, What are the issues with political attention shifting between
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issues? - Correct answer ✔The problem with shifting political
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attention between issues is that public opinions can change on a
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topic and lead to things not being done.
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What are the powers of congress? - Correct answer ✔enact laws,
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collect taxes, oversight of president and veto.
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Why write vague laws? - Correct answer ✔Flexible interpretation
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between courts, prevents laws from being too outdated.
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What is a policy window? - Correct answer ✔Three streams align
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which allows an opportunity for government action.
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Three streams of Policy Window? - Correct answer ✔Problem
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stream: issue recognition |! |! |!
Political Stream: Shift of public mood
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Policy Stream: solutions can be addressed and identified
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Which branch of govt is the most environmentally friendly? -
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Correct answer ✔Judiciary, they interpret laws and set future
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presedence, closest to the people |! |! |! |!
What three things must a plantiff have to establish standing? -
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Correct answer ✔Imminent danger, Tangible harm, Legal action
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can cause improvements
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