Authoritative and trusted, the eight edition of Environmental Policy once again convenes top scholars to evaluate the impact of past environmental policy while anticipating its future implications, helping students decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape environmental politics.

New to the eighth edition:

• NEW chapter on China, capturing the mixed picture of a nation with severe environmental challenges but also one that is on the leading edge in developing new and greener energy technologies.
• NEW evaluation of the Bush presidency and a thoroughly balanced appraisal of the Obama administration’s environmental policy.
• NEW coverage of the fiscal constraints that affect environmental policy.
• NEW data and case studies on national energy policy, climate change, exploration for oil and natural gas on public lands, ecosystem management, the role of science in environmental policy at the EPA and other agencies, court decisions that challenge administrative rulemaking, the greening of industry, the use of market incentives, urban sustainability initiatives, the environmental effects of national security decisions, and economic development and the environment.
• NEW scholarship, polling data, court rulings, congressional actions, agency decisions, and other pertinent events and developments at the international, national, state, and local levels.

New to the eighth edition:

• NEW chapter on China, capturing the mixed picture of a nation with severe environmental challenges but also one that is on the leading edge in developing new and greener energy technologies.
• NEW evaluation of the Bush presidency and a thoroughly balanced appraisal of the Obama administration’s environmental policy.
• NEW coverage of the fiscal constraints that affect environmental policy.
• NEW data and case studies on national energy policy, climate change, exploration for oil and natural gas on public lands, ecosystem management, the role of science in environmental policy at the EPA and other agencies, court decisions that challenge administrative rulemaking, the greening of industry, the use of market incentives, urban sustainability initiatives, the environmental effects of national security decisions, and economic development and the environment.
• NEW scholarship, polling data, court rulings, congressional actions, agency decisions, and other pertinent events and developments at the international, national, state, and local levels.

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Part I. Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition
1. Environmental Policy over Four Decades: Achievements and New Directions, Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig
2. Racing to the Top, the Bottom, or the Middle of the Pack? The Evolving State Government Role in Environmental Protection, Barry G. Rabe
3. “High Hopes and Bitter Disappointment”: Public Discourse and the Limits of the Environmental Movement in Climate Change Politics, Deborah Lynn Guber and Christopher J. Bosso

Part II. Federal Institutions and Policy Change
4. Presidential Powers and Environmental Policy, Norman J. Vig
5. Environmental Policy in Congress, Michael E. Kraft
6. Environmental Policy in the Courts, Rosemary O’Leary

Part III. Public Policy Dilemmas
7. Science, Politics, and Policy at the EPA, Walter A. Rosenbaum
8. Conflict and Cooperation in Natural Resource Management, Mark Lubell and Brian Segee
9. Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy, Sheila M. Olmstead
10. Toward Sustainable Production: Finding Workable Strategies for Government and Industry, Daniel Press and Daniel A. Mazmanian
11. Sustainable Development and Urban Life in North America, Robert C. Paehlke

Part IV. Global and Domestic Issues and Controversies
12. Global Climate Change: Beyond Kyoto, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
13. Environment, Population, and the Developing World, Richard J. Tobin
14. China’s Quest for a Green Economy, Kelly Sims Gallagher and Joanna I. Lewis
15. Environmental Security, Richard A. Matthew

Part V. Conclusion
16. Conclusion: Toward Sustainable Development? Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft

Norman J. Vig is Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Carleton College, where he taught political science and environmental studies for 37 years. He has written extensively on environmental policy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditor with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, Second Edition (2004) and of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (2004) with Michael G. Faure.

Michael E. Kraft is professor of political science and public affairs and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental Policy and Politics, Third Edition (2003) and Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives (2004) with Scott Furlong, and coeditor of Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (1999) with Daniel A. Mazmanian.