REMINDER: CFP ASEH 2015 panel: Implementing US Environmental Law, 1970 to the Present
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karenhoffm
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Dear Group members,
This is a reminder about the ASEH 2015 panel described below. If you are interested in participating in the panel, as a presenter or a commentator, please be in touch with me by July 11, 2014. Thanks!
Best,
Karen
Karen Hoffman
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931
Implementing US Environmental Law, 1970 to the Present
The process of turning protest into policy has multiple moments, aspects, and phases. This panel is focused on the making of policies under environmental laws, in the US between 1970 and the present. The diverse suite of environmental laws that US lawmakers created in the 1970s reflected a new seriousness about environmental protection, and a commitment to making the implementation process more democratic and effective. For example, the requirement of government agencies to allow public participation and the provision for citizen suits in post-1970 environmental law for the first time allowed members of the public other than the entities to be regulated to participate in rulemaking and to bring legal challenges. The panel focuses on what this new commitment to environmental protection and democracy in policy making looked like in practice, and what have been its outcomes. Papers are invited that address this topic.
Papers may address any post-1970 environmental law in the US, at any level of government. Questions that papers address might include:
How was the law implemented?
What new participants entered into the process? What did they do? With what effect? What limits did they encounter, if any? How were those limits constructed?
What previous participants remained engaged in the process? What did they do and with what effect? What limits did they encounter, if any? How were those limits constructed?
What relationships did environmental advocates and policy makers form with each other?
How were relationships between the private sector entities to be regulated and policy makers reproduced and/or transformed?
How did the staff of regulatory agencies negotiate the conflicts they found in their agencies, and/or between the private sector entities to be regulated and public-interest advocates?
How did particular language in the law open up or constrain options in implementation?
Were the regulatory agencies able implement the requirements in the law? If so, how? If not, what limits did they encounter? How were those limits constructed?
Interested panelists should submit their abstracts (of no more than 300 words), paper title, keywords, and contact information to Karen Hoffman (karen...@gmail.com) by Friday, July 11, 2014. Those interested in participating in the commentator role should express their interest by the same date.
This is a reminder about the ASEH 2015 panel described below. If you are interested in participating in the panel, as a presenter or a commentator, please be in touch with me by July 11, 2014. Thanks!
Best,
Karen
Karen Hoffman
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931
Implementing US Environmental Law, 1970 to the Present
The process of turning protest into policy has multiple moments, aspects, and phases. This panel is focused on the making of policies under environmental laws, in the US between 1970 and the present. The diverse suite of environmental laws that US lawmakers created in the 1970s reflected a new seriousness about environmental protection, and a commitment to making the implementation process more democratic and effective. For example, the requirement of government agencies to allow public participation and the provision for citizen suits in post-1970 environmental law for the first time allowed members of the public other than the entities to be regulated to participate in rulemaking and to bring legal challenges. The panel focuses on what this new commitment to environmental protection and democracy in policy making looked like in practice, and what have been its outcomes. Papers are invited that address this topic.
Papers may address any post-1970 environmental law in the US, at any level of government. Questions that papers address might include:
How was the law implemented?
What new participants entered into the process? What did they do? With what effect? What limits did they encounter, if any? How were those limits constructed?
What previous participants remained engaged in the process? What did they do and with what effect? What limits did they encounter, if any? How were those limits constructed?
What relationships did environmental advocates and policy makers form with each other?
How were relationships between the private sector entities to be regulated and policy makers reproduced and/or transformed?
How did the staff of regulatory agencies negotiate the conflicts they found in their agencies, and/or between the private sector entities to be regulated and public-interest advocates?
How did particular language in the law open up or constrain options in implementation?
Were the regulatory agencies able implement the requirements in the law? If so, how? If not, what limits did they encounter? How were those limits constructed?
Interested panelists should submit their abstracts (of no more than 300 words), paper title, keywords, and contact information to Karen Hoffman (karen...@gmail.com) by Friday, July 11, 2014. Those interested in participating in the commentator role should express their interest by the same date.
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