Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

Please note that this assignment contains multiple steps.

This Assignment is the second step in analyzing the importance of stakeholders and their interests.

For this Assignment, you will analyze stakeholders in the debate about gasoline additives, using your case study on MTBE. Your objective is to develop a stakeholder map like the one discussed in the video below. Your goal is to place five stakeholders on this 2 x 2 grid, which is a common assessment framework in social science and policy analysis. Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

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PlaybookUX. (2019, May 28). What is a Stakeholder Maps [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=HP2MZscvFl8&feature=youtu.be

This Assignment has two objectives. One is to identify different stakeholder groups and to summarize their interests. The second is to determine their importance in policy making. Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

To complete this assignment, please follow the instructions below:

Step 1. Identify Five Possible Stakeholders

Identify actors with a stake in gasoline additives. To do this you can conduct an Internet search. Here are some places to start:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE). Retrieved from https://archive.epa.gov/mtbe/web/html/gas.html Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

State of Maryland. (December 2001). The task force on the environmental effects of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). Retrieved from
https://mde.state.md.us/programs/LAND/Documents/www.mde.state.md.us/assets/document/waste/mtbe_finalreport.pdf

Try to identify stakeholders expressing different positions or with different characteristics. (For example, five companies from the petroleum industry are not a diverse set. A combination of government agencies, environmental advocates, community groups and industry representatives would be a diverse set. Environmental Policy Analysis Essay
Step 2. Fill Out the Stakeholder Assessment Table

Enter five stakeholders into the stakeholder assessment table.
Complete the details in the rows for each stakeholder. Refer to the instructions on page 2 of the table for more details. Please note that your assessment will require you to use material relating stakeholder power (i.e., influence and access) to the three institutional elements – science, bureaucracy, and ethics – that were discussed in this unit. Please pay careful attention to the instructions on page 2 to assure that you capture these elements. Environmental Policy Analysis Essay
Step 3. Fill Out the Stakeholder Assessment Map

Using the data from the stakeholder assessment table, place each stakeholder on the 2 x 2 interest-influence grid. Refer to the instructions in the stakeholder assessment map for more details.
Step 4. Reflect on this Stakeholder Assessment Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

Add additional slides in the stakeholder assessment map that answer these two questions:
Which actors are most likely to be taken into account in policy making?
Based on the interests and influence of these stakeholders, what policy approaches should be considered? Environmental Policy Analysis Essay
After you have completed steps 1-4, you should have the following items.

A completed stakeholder assessment table.
A completed stakeholder assessment map with the answers to the two assessment questions.
In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, a successful assignment must also meet the following criteria: Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

Length of stakeholder assessment table (Microsoft® Word®) should be 1 page, excluding cover page and references.
Length of stakeholder assessment map (Microsoft PowerPoint®) should be 3-4 slides, excluding title slide and reference slide.
Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
Submit the Stakeholder Assessment Table and Map to the Unit 4 Dropbox by the end of Unit 4. Environmental Policy Analysis Essay

Resources

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