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Taking the mystery out of natural resource policy. (Books).

Publication: BioScience
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1131 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The Policy Process: A Practical Guide for Natural Resource Professionals. Tim W. Clark. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002. 215 pp. $35.00 (ISBN 0300090110 cloth).

How is natural resource policy made? "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Some years ago, Winston Churchill's famous quote about Russian foreign policy went through my mind as I sat in a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building listening to a heated discussion about science and policy with respect to dam operations and their impacts on salmon. After reading Tim Clark's book about the policy process, I thought back to that meeting and wondered if the course of our discussion might have changed had all the participants had an opportunity to read The Policy Process. The question is, as they say, academic, but I would like to believe it would have.

Tim Clark has been a keen observer of the natural resource policy process for many years. And to his credit, much of what he has...

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