Gerald Andrews Emison

Practical Program Evaluations: Getting from Ideas to Outcomes

By Gerald Andrews Emison - Practical Program Evaluations: Getting from Ideas to Outcomes (8.9.2006)

Practical Program Evaluations: Getting from Ideas to Outcomes

Program evaluation requires attention to rationality, rigor, and careful methods. Yet precision and accuracy alone do not guarantee that program evaluations will be implemented. What prevents an evaluation from being thrown on a shelf to gather dust? Author Gerald Emison, a practitioner with more th...

True Green: Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most confli...

Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they ...