ENMT303 Environmental Regulations and Policy Week 1 Discussion
DQ1 Policy approaches and tools
Your course content lists five policy approaches to overcome the tragedy of the commons:
Prescriptive Regulations
Property Rights
Penalties
Payments
Persuasions
Which of the policy tools that you learned about in Week 1 content can be used for each of the policy approaches? Please make sure to read what others have written and add to the discussion about appropriate policy tool usage for each policy approach.
Once this has been done, please take an environmental issue that you are concerned about, and discuss which approach(s) can be most effectively used to address that issue.
The general guidelines for engaging discussions are to share your thoughts on one of the questions above and then those who come later should add to what has already been discussed.
DQ2 Natural Resource versus Pollution Management and how the various federal agencies affect your health and safety
Agencies involved with environmental management falls under two broad categories: natural resource management and pollution management. Can you list the agencies that are involved with natural resource management versus those that are involved with pollution management?
This week we provided Figure 2 as a visual for the relationship between various federal agencies, and how they affect what occurs in our home and at work and the places we visit. Please take a specific activity you do and trace back to how the agencies affect the safety and health of that activity.
DQ3 Investigating state environmental permits
In this week’s module, we noted that states issue the majority of environmental permits. Please find the name of your state environmental agency and name a type of permit that they issue, and how that Read More