Analysis of factors affecting change in
public policy over a period of several decades; the role of scientific
information in that process; policy implementation; belief systems
of policy elites; land use and air pollution policy in the U.S.
and western Europe; water quality at San Francisco Bay and Lake
Tahoe; factors affecting the success of multi-stakeholder watershed
partnerships; and the application of multiple theories (particularly
the Advocacy Coalition Framework) to this question.