George Busenberg, PhD

Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Policy Soka University

  • Aliso Viejo CA

Professor Busenberg focuses on environmental policy

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Biography

Professor Busenberg specializes in environmental policy.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Management
Environmental Policy

Accomplishments

Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver

2005

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ph. D.

Rice University

B. A.

Articles

The Policy Dynamics of the Trans‐Alaska Pipeline System

Review of Policy Research

George J Busenberg

2011

Since 1977, oil produced in northern Alaska has posed a major environmental threat across large areas of Alaska while simultaneously playing a dominant role in the economy of Alaska. This enduring dilemma was created by the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to transport oil produced on the North Slope of Alaska, a region containing the largest oil field ever developed in North America. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System transports oil through an 800-mile pipeline and ocean-going oil tankers...

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Managing the Hazard of Marine Oil Pollution in Alaska

Review of Policy Research

George J Busenberg

2008

This study examines the development of safeguards against marine oil pollution in Alaska since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in which oil spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez polluted more than 2,000 kilometers of Alaskan coastline. Since 1989, a series of enduring institutional reforms have contributed to major enhancements in the safeguards against the continuing hazard of marine oil pollution in Alaska. This study is the first to comprehensively examine these new institutions and safeguards in two regions of Alaska with marine oil transportation systems...

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Citizen Participation and Collaborative Environmental Management in the Marine Oil Trade of Coastal Alaska

Coastal Management

George J Busenberg

2007

This study compares the contributions to policy change made by two Regional Citizens’ Advisory Councils that participate in the environmental management of the marine oil trade in coastal regions of Alaska. Both councils are remarkably well-funded and long-enduring examples of citizen participation in environmental policy. This study finds that both councils have applied their substantial funding resources to make significant contributions to policy change (policy contributions) in the marine oil trade of coastal Alaska...

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