TY - JOUR
AB -  Introduction Policy is a word with several meanings, each depending upon its context. A common meaning, as defined by the Oxford Reference Dictionary, is “a course of action adopted by a government or party or person.” The content of policy in government is almost always complex, often contradictory, and subject to various changes and interpretations. For any aspect of government, there may be many policies, depending on the purpose of policymakers and the agencies through which policies are applied. In the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change (1991), Joseph F. Coates identifies 16 sources of environmental policy problems in the 21st century. However, the numbers could be increased greatly by reference to additional problems that have been present for many years. The following articles examine eight different contexts of public environmental policy. Each is concerned with a different object of policy for some aspect of the environment but, because of the particular problems addressed and the differing subjectmatter context, they are not examined comparatively in this symposium. The breadth and diversity of context is a basic reason why it is difficult to address policy problems for the environment in a general or coherent manner. Generalizations are possible at 
TI - Introduction
JF - Review of Policy Research
DO - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00554.x
DA - 1993-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/introduction-7Vgrovej9r
SP - 103
VL - 12
IS - 3‐4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -