Activity 4.2 Environmental Policy Frameworks

 

The Ohio Antidegradation Case

The Drake Chemical Case

The Quincy Library Group Case

Gain/Loss Frame

Views of Nature Frames

Economic Framework

Basically in 1972 the Clean Water Act required states to define their water quality standards. The Ohio case was a gain/loss frame, because both groups where fighting in court what they wanted the policy to be, yet due to potential loss/gain from both sides they just stopped, and left the case as it is.

This was a chemical production company back in the 1940s and early 1980s. The company would dump chemicals into the lagoon and got told by the Department of Environmental regulation that they had to stop doing that. Since the facility didn't want to accept the environmental policy they filed for bankruptcy, and abandoned the facility by stating that “complying with the new regulations 

would be prohibitively costly”. This framework is a view of nature, because these individuals working that facility were not perceiving the effects of human interaction on the environment. Meaning dumping chemicals in a lagoon which caused it to be a highly contaminated place.


Concern over the management of three national forests in California's northern sierra. Timer from wood was being overused so environmentalists wanted to reduce that but loggers didn't like the idea that much. This resonates  a lot with economics, because the loggers making money from timberwood didn't care if it was affecting the environment, as long as they were making money. 



After reading this weeks module I learned about how laws actually come into place. Yes, I understand that they ned to go through congress to pass the bill and be approved, However, it also has a lot to do with framing. Now I did not know what frames means in environmental class. I thought it had to do with windows, but actually learning about why they are important in making a decision makes sense why they're called “frames” or “framing”. Environmental framing is basically looking at a different perspective of other peoples frameworks that your are trying to negotiate a policy with.


Cohen, S., Wannemacher, J., & Weisbecker, P. (2014). Understanding environmental policy (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press.

Environmental Framing Consortium. (2005). Framing choices. Understanding Environmental Problems. http://www.intractableconflict.org/environmentalframing/framing_choices.shtml

Kaufman, L. (2010, October 18). In Kansas, climate skeptics embrace cleaner energy. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/science/earth/19fossil.html

Nordhaus, H. (2018, February 2). What Trump’s shrinking of national monuments actually means. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/12/trump-shrinks-bears-ears-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments/

Popovich, N., Albech-Ripka, L., & Pierre-Louis, K. (2019, June 7). 83 environmental rules being rolled back under Trump. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

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