Bibliography Category: Energy and Environmental Issues

Scheberle, Denise. Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation. 2nd edition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. This book examines reasons why environmental laws seldom work out exactly as planned, and explores the web of federal-state working relationships and their effect on the implementation of policy.

Ramirez, Marcela. Relationship Between Military Engineers and Environmental Issues. Issue Paper, Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2011. http://www.csl.army.mil/usacsl/publications/IP_4_11_ElSalvador.pdf (accessed 5 October 2011). This paper examines the impact of human activities on public health, natural environmental quality, and natural resources. The author asserts that civilian government agencies and private […]

McGrady, Ed, Maria Kingsley, and Jessica Stewart. Climate Change: Potential Effects on Demands for U.S. Military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analysis, 2010. http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Climate%20Change%20and%20Military%2013873.pdf (accessed 26 January 2012). This paper explores how climate change will affect military humanitarian disaster response. The paper also addresses how climate change will affect the […]

Executive Order 13580: Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska. Federal Register Vol. 76, no. 136 (15 July 2011): 41989-41991. http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=489350 (accessed 26 September 2011). This executive order mandates the creation of an Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska, to “coordinate the […]

Espach, Ralph H. Security Planning and Policies to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analysis, 2010. http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/13878.pdf (accessed 26 January 2012). This report discusses the potential effects of climate change on the countries of South America, and acts as a primer for a roundtable meeting on this issue and others […]

Congress. House of Representatives. Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Chain of Command: An Examination of Information Sharing Practices During a Spill of National Significance. 111th Cong., 2nd sess., No. 111-74. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg64700/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg64700.pdf (8 August 2011). This is a transcript of a House Subcommittee on […]

Congress. House of Representatives. Subcommittee on Insular Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources. Success and Challenges of the Interagency Group on Insular Areas. 110th Cong., 2nd sess., 2008. No. 110-81. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:43630.pdf (accessed 17 August 2011). This is a transcript of a House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs hearing on the successes and challenges of the […]

Congress. House of Representatives. Implementing the Recommendations of the BP Oil Spill Commission Act of 2011. 112th Cong., 1st sess., 2011. H.R. 501. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr501ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr501ih.pdf (accessed 20 March 2012). This act sought to effectively implement the recommendations of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. It creates new agencies within […]

Caress, Stanley. The Dynamics of an Interagency Approach to Environmental Health Policy. Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper . Sacramento, CA: Western Political Science Association, 2011. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1766702 (accessed 27 July 2011). This paper examines a recent effort a by a congressional subcommittee to form an interagency advisory council dealing with federal environmental health policy. The […]

Baumann, Ernest, Kim Jackson, Eric Trabert Joel Silverman, Angie De Groot, Holly Gell, Monica Giovachino, Kristin Koch, Leslie-Anne Levy, Elizabeth Myrus, and Dawn Thomas. Why the Emergency Management Community Should be Concerned about Climate Change: A discussion of the impact of climate change on selected natural hazards. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analysis, 2010. http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/WEB%2007%2029%2010.1%20Climate%20Change%20and%20the%20Emergency%20Management%20Community.pdf […]