Introduction

 

 

I began working on environmental issues starting in the late 1980s, seeking to bring to bear my interest of local issues and city policymaking on environmental policy and policies.  My first work on this was a book with Sage called Controversial Issues in Environmental Policy, and then the study of the NIMBY syndrome as it emerged in the context of siting hazardous waste treatment facilities.  This interest eventually morphed into my focus on sustainability and sustainable cities.

 

Books

 

 

 

1992 -- Controversial Issues in Environmental Policy.

Volume 1, Sage “Current Controversies in Public Policies”

series. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1991 -- Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities:

The NIMBY Syndrome. Westport, CT: Auburn House,

Greenwood Publishing Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Papers (also look under Sustainable Cities and Sustainability)

 

2019 -- Xinsheng Liu, Feng Hao, Kent E. Portney, and Yinxi Liu, “Examining Public Concern about Global Warming and Climate Change in China,” The China Quarterly, First View https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019000845.

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2007 -- “Local Business and Environmental Policies in Cities,” Chapter 10 in Michael Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., Business and Environmental Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 299-325.

 

1994 --  “Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Is There a Critical Nexus in the Case of Waste Disposal or Treatment Facility Siting?" in Fordham Urban Law Journal, Spring, pp. 827-839.

 

1991 -- “Public Environmental Policy Decision Making: Citizen Roles," in Richard A. Chechile and Susan Carlisle, eds. Environmental Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 195-216.

 

1991-- “The Dilemma of Democracy in State and Local Environmental Regulation: The Case of Citizen Participation in Local Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting," in John Havick, ed. Mass Communications, Democratization and the Political Process. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

 

1987 -- “The Role of Economic Factors in Lay Perceptions of Risk,” in Charles E. Davis and James P. Lester, eds. Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Chapter 3, pp. 95-122.

 

1986 -- “The Perception of Health Risk and Opposition to Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting: Implications for Hazardous Waste Management and Policy from Survey Research," in John W. Frazier and Bart K. Epstein, eds. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 9, pp.114-123.

 

1985 -- “The Effectiveness of Economic Incentives in Overcoming Local Opposition to Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting: An Analysis Using Public Opinion Data from Massachusetts,” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, September.

 

1984 -- “Allaying the NIMBY Syndrome: The Potential for Compensation in Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting,” Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall, pp. 411-421.