Environmental Policy Science’s Exploration for Innovative Data

This edited volume discusses the use of untraditional data sources in environmental political research and its implications for policymaking. Researchers involved in natural resource administrative investigations and pollution control policy analysis must be entrepreneurial in finding and utilizing data sets to answer pressing policy questions. Successful researchers must increasingly go beyond publicly available federal programs assessments, original but local surveys, and collaborations or interviews with or about stakeholder groups to be relevant. Chapters provide a survey of current environmental research using data sources such as social media and political communication. This book poses critical questions about the possibilities for the use of creative and innovative analyses especially in the cases where policymakers have ignored objective, evidence-bases social scientific analysis about environment challenges. Encouraging scholars to embrace new processes, research designs, and data, this volume will be useful to researchers in the social and environmental sciences.