Community Waste Management

1. EPA's Guide to Solid Waste Management
2. Facts about Municipal Solid Waste/Recycling
3. Waste & Toxics Management (Sustainable Communities Network)
4. Urban Waste Management
5. City Solid Waste Management Department (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
6. City Solid Wastes (Santa Barbara, California)
7. City of Columbia, Missouri Solid Waste Recycling Programs
8.  

Model Laws for Local Government on the Protection of Natural Resources and the Environment

1. Uniform State Laws:  National Conference of Commissioners
2. Melding State Environmental Policy Acts with Land-Use Planning and Regulations (Daniel R. Mandelker)
3. Environmental Management: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Environmental Governance (Jan Joost Kessler et al.)
4. Environmental Management of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (Jaap de Vries et al.)
5. U.N. Documents on Global Issues:  Governance
6. Global Legal Information Network
7. U.S. EPA:  National Center for Environmental Economics
8. "Innovations in Environmental Policy:  Triangulating the Future of Reinvention:  Three Emerging Models of Environmental Protection,"  by Daniel A. Farber.  2000 University of  Illinois Law Review 61
9. Accommodating Growth or Enabling Sprawl? The Role of Population Growth Projections in Comprehensive Planning Under the Washington State Growth Management Act (law journal article), by Brent D. Lloyd.  36 Gonzala Law Review 73 (2000/2001)
10. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
11. California Environmental Protection Agency
12. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
13. Washington Department of Ecology
14. Missouri Department of Natural Resources
15. EPA's Model Ordinances to Protect Local Resources
16. The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)
17. ECOS Publications
18. "The States Protect the Environment:  The Role of State Governments in Environmental Protection Has Increased Dramatically Over the Last Ten Years," by R. Steven Brown
19. State Spending on Environmental Protection:  Nearly Double What the EPA Budget
20. State Environmental Agency Contributions to Enforcement and Compliance (pdf format; 96 pages)
21. Finding New Ways of Doing Business:  How the States and EPA are Working Together for Environmental Protection
22. State Environmental Management Innovations
23. ECOStates Archives of Articles
24. Treatise (text), "State Environmental Law," by Daniel P. Selmi and Kenneth A. Manaster  (l989 edition)
25. U.S. map with state-by-state links to each state's environmental protection agency and statutes
26. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
27. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
28. A Massachusetts' Perspective on Environmental Management Systems in the Public Sector, by Lauren Liss (pdf format)
29. The Massachusetts Environmental Results Program:  Improving Environmental Performance on an Industry Sector Basis, by Lauren Liss, Ira Leighton, Sylvia K. Lowrance, and Thomas J. Gibson (pdf format)
30. States Implement a Growing Number of Environmental Laws for the EPA:  Fitting the Pieces Together for a Cleaner Environment, by R. Steven Brown, Kim Smaczniak, and Matthew Jones (pdf format)
31. The Special Nature of Environmental Protection in Hawaii, by Gary Gill (pdf format)
32. Interview with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, about the Role of States in Environmental Protection
33. Smart Growth in Small Towns and Rural Communities:  Maryland's Eastern Shore (ELI Roundtable Report) (pdf format; 26 pages)
34. State Nonpoint Source Enforcement Mechanisms in Context:  A Look At Eight States (Maryland, Ohio, Maine, Georgia, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin)  (pdf format; 181 pages)
35. Libraries as a Community Resource for Environmental Information (pdf format; 23 pages)
36. Community Environmental Health Assessment Workbook:  A Guide to Evaluating Your Community's Health and Finding Ways to Improve It (pdf format; 102 pages)
37. Virginia's Economic Incentives:  Missed Opportunities for Sustainable Growth (pdf format; 34 pages)
38. How Virginia's Communities Are Implementing Sustainable Development (pdf format; 69 pages)
39. Guiding Growth in Virginia:  Local Incentives for Revitalization and Preservation (pdf format; 60 pages)
40. Innovative State Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation (pdf format; 76 pages)
41. Protecting Biodiversity:  Legal Mechanisms Concerning Access to and Compensation for the Use of Genetic Resources in the U.S.A. (pdf format; 91 pages)
42. Pollution Prevention and Mining:  A Proposed Framework for the Americas (pdf format; 67 pages)
43. Constitutional Environmental Law:  Giving Force to Fundamental Principles in Africa (53 African countries' constitutions are examined)  (pdf format; 70 pages)
44. Forests for the Chesapeake Bay (incentive programs; public education programs) (pdf format; 155 pages)
45. Almanac of Enforceable State Laws to Control Nonpoint Source Water Pollution (pdf format; 299 pages)
46. Legal Aspects of Forest Management in Mexico (pdf format; 159 pages)
47. Innovative State and Local Programs for Improving Air Quality (pdf format; 134 pages)
48. Decentralization of Environmental Protection in Mexico:  An Overview of State and Local Institutions (pdf format; 336 pages)
49. Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook (APA)
    • Chapter 12, Integrating State Environmental Policy Acts with Local Planning (pdf format; 32 pages)
    • Chapter 5, State Land-Use Control (pdf format; 74 pages)
    • Chapter 9, Special and Environmental Land Development Regulations and Land-Use Incentives (pdf format; 106 pages)
50. Environmental Legislation (Natural Resources Defense Council)
51. National Association of Counties
    • County Environmental Reporter (pdf format)
    • Archives of the County Environmental Reporter 
52. National Association of Towns and Townships
53. National Center for Small Communities
54. National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals
55. National Conference of State Legislatures
    • Environmental Protection
    • Natural Resources
    • Agriculture
    • Commerce & Economic Development
56. National League of Cities
57. International City/County Management Association
    • Natural Resources
    • Resource Cities Program
    • Small Communities Advisory Network on environmental issues
58. Wisconsin Model Zoning Ordinances (Department of Natural Resources)
    • Model Ordinances for a Conservation Subdivision; Traditional Neighborhood Development; Town Plan Commission
59. Smart Growth OnLine
60. Environmental Characteristics of Smart Growth Neighborhoods (NRDC report)
61. State & Local Referenda on Parks, Conservation, and Smart Growth:  Livability at the Ballot Box (PDF format; 21 pages)
62. Model Ordinances to Protect Local Resources (EPA site on water resources)
63. Local Tools for Smart Growth:  Practical Strategies & Techniques to Improve Communities (PDF format; 69 pages)
64. The Trust for Public Land:  Conserving Land for People
65. Getting to Smart Growth:  100 Policies for Implementation (PDF format; 104 pages)
66. Maryland Tool Box:  Models to Achieve Smart Growth
67. (article) Let 50 Flowers Bloom:  Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy 
68. (article)  Are Standing Rights for Environmental Groups in the Public Interest?  
69. 1,000 Friends of Oregon (land-use planning)
    • Citizen Involvement
    • Coastal & Natural Environment
    • Farm, Forest, and Range Land Preservation
    • Urban Development and Design
    • Overview of Oregon's Land Use Planning Program
    • Local City & County Codes & Plans (specifics)
    • Links to Land Use Planning Groups in other states and throughout North America
70. Treatise (book):  State Environmental Law, by Daniel P. Selmi and Kenneth A. Manaster (l989; being updated in 2002)
71. PhD Dissertation (Indiana University, Political Science/Public & Environmental Affairs; l996; 182 pages):  The Impact of Intergovernmental Environmental Law and Policy on Local Government, by Paul S. Weiland

Environmental Education Programs