The Policy Process A Practical Guide for Natural Resources Professionals Tim W. Clark

This work is designed to teach natural resources professionals how to be more effective in solving conservation and environmental policy problems. Its presentation of basic concepts, case studies and "real world concerns" offers a deeper understanding of the policy process and should be useful to students and practitioners in such fields as wildlife biology, conservation biology, forestry, range management, ecosystem management and sustainable development. Tim Clark begins by describing the challenges faced by natural resources professionals. He then explains how the substance and process of policy analysis and decision making can be improved by using a policy sciences framework that takes into account biological, social, political and institutional considerations. Finally he reflects on how issues of human rights and morality should affect natural resources management and policy analysis.

Tim W. Clark is professor adjunct of wildlife ecology and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is also president of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, Jackson, Wyoming. A companion volume to the present book is Clark's Foundations of Natural Resources Policy and Management (0 300 08356 4 cloth, [pound]25.00, and 0 300 08144 8 pb. [pound]12.00), both published by Yale University Press.

"The best primer on how the resource analyst, manager, or activist should understand natural resource policy issues and operate effectively in the policy process."- William Ascher, Duke University