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Environmental Policy
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
Eleventh Edition
Edited by:
- Norman J. Vig - Carleton College, Minnesota
- Michael E. Kraft - University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA
- Barry G. Rabe - University of Michigan, USA
March 2021 | 424 pages | CQ Press
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics.
The Eleventh Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine the public’s opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy, natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump administration's four years of policy changes and students will walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges that policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.
The Eleventh Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine the public’s opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy, natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump administration's four years of policy changes and students will walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges that policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.
Preface
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Part I. Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition
1. U.S. Environmental Policy: A Half-Century Assessment
2. Racing to the Top, the Bottom, or the Middle of the Pack? The Evolving State Government Role in Environmental Protection
3. Politics, Prices and Proof: American Public Opinion on Environmental Policy
Part II. Federal Institutions and Policy Change
4. Presidential Powers and Environmental Policy
5. Environmental Policy in Congress
6. Environmental Policy in the Courts
7. The Environmental Protection Agency
Part III. Public Policy Dilemmas
8. Energy Policy
9. Natural Resource Policies in an Era of Polarized Politics
10. Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy
11. Sustainability and Resilience in Cities: What Cities Are Doing
Part IV. Global Issues and Controversies
12. Global Climate Change Governance: Can the Promise of Paris be Realized?
13. Environment, Population, and the Developing World
14. Creating the Green Economy: Government, Business, and a Sustainable Future
Part V. Conclusion
15. Conclusion: Environmental Policy in Crisis
Appendices
Index
I am using this book and very happy with it. The book is thorough and the authors consistently attempt to be even handed in issues that can be very contentious.
History & Political Science, Hagerstown Community College
September 19, 2023
Excellent and timely update on previous editions.
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
February 3, 2023
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter01: US Environmental Policy
Chapter02: Racing to the top, the bottom, or the middle of the pack?