Identify and briefly discuss two concepts in this course that you believe will be most applicable to the professional discipline you will enter upon completion of your degree program. What is the importance of these concepts to the professional discipline? (standard-setting process) and (regulatory framework) are the chosen concepts. How will you use these concepts in your future career? Optional: Offer feedback on how the course and/or facilitation of the course can be improved. Reflection is a mental process that challenges you to use critical thinking to examine the course information, analyze it carefully, make connections with previous knowledge and experience, and draw conclusions based on the resulting ideas. A well-cultivated critical thinker raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely; gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively; comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards; thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; and communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems. (Paul & Elder, 2008) In order to earn maximum credit, the comment should be more than your opinion, and more than a quick off the top of your head response. Be sure to support your statements, cite sources properly, cite 2-3 per pargraph within the text of your comments, and list your reference(s). The response must be a minimum of 250 words. Alm, A. L. (1988, January/February). NEPA: Past, present, and future. EPA Journal. Revised 2016. Retrieved from https://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/nepa-past-present-and-future Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2013). Chapter 1: Overview of U.S. legal system. In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 122). Somerset, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley. Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2013). Chapter 2: Transparency & accountability in the executive branch: Judicial review and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 2340). Somerset, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley. Council on Environmental Quality. (1997). The National Environmental Policy Act: A study of its effectiveness after twenty-five years. Retrieved from https://ceq.doe.gov/nepa/nepa25fn.pdf Kraft, M. (2015). Environmental policy and politics (6th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. Lewis, J. (1985, November). The birth of EPA. EPA Journal. Retrieved from https://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/birth-epa National environmental policy act implementing procedures. (2016). Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc. Spina, F. (2015). Environmental justice and patterns of State inspections. Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 96(2), 417-429. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12160 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Environmental justice considerations in the NEPA process. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/nepaej/index.html Van Sluytman, L. G., & Sheppard, P. (2016). 26 Environment of the margins. Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender, 197.
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