Environmental administration / Stahrl Edmunds and John Letey

Includes index.

Section One. The Emerging Problem of Environmental Administration -- 1. The Concept of Environmental Administration -- 2. Human Interaction with Environment -- 3. The Structure of Present Decision Making Relative to the Environment -- 4. Government as Developer and Monitor -- 6. An Expanded View of Environmental Decision Making -- Section Two. The Ecological System -- 7. The Biology of the Environment by John Letey -- 8. Limits and Tolerance within the Eco structure by John Letey -- 9. Reversible and Irreversible Ecological Processes by John Letey -- Section Three. Observing and Measuring Ecological Processes -- 10. Material Balance -- 11. Dispersion and Circulation of Materials in the Ecosystem -- 12. Impact Statements and Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 13. Market Simulation of Environmental Cost -- 14. Marginal and Opportunity Cost in Environmental Analysis -- 16. Trade-off Analysis: Cost Burdens and Beneficiaries -- 17. Environmental Impact Analysis -- 18. Social Choice Making on Environmental Issues. -- Section Four. The Implementation of Programs in Environmental Issues -- 19. Environmental Management Systems -- 20. The Interface of Environmental Organizations -- 21. Environmental Mission Analysis -- 22. Environemental Program Organization and Control -- 23. Environmental Information systems -- 24. Politics of Environmental

The deep concern shown by the consumers and the public over the quality of the environment, the passage of the National Environmental Quality Act of 1969, and the numerous governmental regulation to control pollution and environmental quality have, by now, made it abundantly clear that a new level of involvement with ecological effects is required of any administrator in business or government who makes decisions about product and residuals which end up in land, air or water-- as most materials do.