Includes bibliographical references and index.

Regulation at risk : the controversial politics and science of comparative risk assessment / Walter A. Rosenbaum -- The social and political (re)construction of risk / Stephen H. Linder -- Market incentives in air pollution control / Gary Bryner -- Employing strategic planning in environmental regulation / Steven Cohen -- Two faces of equity in superfund implementation / Sheldon Kamieniecki and Janie Steckenrider -- Environmental (in)equity : race, class, and the distribution of environmental bads / Ann O'M. Bowman -- Bringing private management to the public lands : environmental and economic advantages / John A. Baden and Tim O'Brien -- This land is "our" land : the case for federal retention of public lands / Charles Davis -- Trade liberalization and the natural environment : conflict or opportunity? / Juliann Allison -- International trade and sustainable development / David Goodman and Richard B. Howarth -- The limits of environtmental security / Daniel Deudney -- Linking environment, culture, and security / Margaret Scully Granzeier -- Conclusion : obstacles to achieving sustainabilty / George A. Gonzalez. As a contribution to public policy and to help educate students about natural resource issues, this book identifies the likely "hot spots" of environmental policy and presents alternative and often opposing points of view on the major controversies that are likely to be with us well into the next century. Among the topics covered are comparative risk assessment; market incentives in environmental regulation; environmental justice; public versus private management of public lands; international trade and sustainable development; and the relationship between national security and environmental protection.