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Lowell, Natalie C.

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Evaluating agency use of "best available science" under the Endangered Species Act.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evaluating agency use of "best available science" under the Endangered Species Act./
Author:	Lowell, Natalie C.
Description:	31 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-02(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1599856
ISBN:	9781339072791

Evaluating agency use of "best available science" under the Endangered Species Act.
Lowell, Natalie C.

Evaluating agency use of "best available science" under the Endangered Species Act. - 31 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02.

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015.

Since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, the world's population has nearly doubled, environmental issues have become increasingly politicized, and species continue to go extinct at alarming rates, leading to political conflict that potentially impedes ESA implementation. Because the ways in which agencies use science in the ESA often serve as the legal basis for litigation, it is timely and pertinent to evaluate the quality of science used, both in order to point to ways of improving ESA science policy and to minimize agency exposure to future litigation. The "best" available science and its use are each moving targets, difficult to define in the abstract. However, a straightforward way of evaluating these ideas is to compare the use of science by each of the two administrative agencies in charge of implementing the ESA, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA). Here, I use a suite of data sources---including litigation records, authorship affiliation, and bibliography and listing frequency data---to ask whether one agency systematically uses "better" science than the other. I find that the NOAA outperforms the FWS on four of eight metrics, while the agencies do not differ by the remaining four metrics, suggesting that, overall, the NOAA uses systematically better science than FWS. Lastly, I interpret my findings in the context of each agency's budget, structure, and history and highlight specific policy mechanisms that would allow the agencies to use better science and improve endangered species management.

ISBN: 9781339072791Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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