Can Regulation Work?: The Implementation of the 1972 California Coastal Initiative: Environment, Development and Public Policy: Environmental Policy and Planning

1. The Prospects for Effective Implementation of Regulatory Policy.- 2. The California Coastal Commissions: Genesis and a Preliminary Implementation Assessment.- 3. Beyond the Reach of the Coastal Act: External Factors Affecting the Coastal Commissions.- 4. The Internal Process of Policy Implementation: Policy Preferences and Relationships among Agency Officials.- 5. Permit Review by the Coastal Commissions: Decisions and the Factors Affecting Them.- 6. Impacts — Regulation to What End?.- 7. The California Coastal Plan: Its Development and Consistency with Statutory Objectives.- 8. Evaluation and Reformulation of the Commissions’ Mandate: The 1976 Legislative Session.- 9. Epilogue: Sustaining Coastal Conservation in a Different Political Environment, 1977 – 1981.- 10. The Implications of the California Coastal Commissions for the Effective Implementation of Regulatory Policy.- Appendices.- A. Principal Data Bases.- B. The California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972.