Authoritative and classic, the seventh edition of Environmental Policy once again brings together 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.
This new edition represents the most extensive revision to date: five new chapters include coverage of national security and the environment, China’s environmental problems, domestic and international actions on climate change, conflicts over U.S. natural resource policies and collaborative ecosystem management, and the role of economics and market incentives in environmental policy. Incorporating analysis of the eight years under George W. Bush and a look ahead to the Barack Obama administration, all chapters include new scholarship, case studies, poll data, court rulings, congressional actions, agency decisions, and other events at the international, national, state, and local levels. With its clear, engaging writing, this tried and true reader makes great environmental research and scholarship accessible to an undergraduate audience.
Environmental Policy includes new coverage of:
- national energy policy
- climate change
- implementation of the Endangered Species Act
- exploration for oil and natural gas on public lands
- ecosystem management
- the role of science in environmental policy
- court decisions that challenge administrative rulemaking
- the greening of industry
- urban sustainability initiatives
- the environmental effects of national security decisions
- economic development and the environment
Table of Contents
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. Past the Tipping Point? Public Discourse and the Role of the Environmental Movement in a Post-Bush Era, 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 America, Robert C. Paehlke
Part IV. Global and Domestic Issues and Controversies
12. Global Climate Change: Kyoto and Beyond, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
13. Environment, Population, and the Developing World, Richard J. Tobin
14. China: The Great Leap Backward?, Elizabeth C. Economy
15. Environmental Security, Richard A. Matthew
Part V. Conclusion
16. Conclustion: Toward Sustainable Development?, Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft
Testimonials
“Once again, Vig and Kraft have delivered a first rate text that offers a thorough and timely analysis of American environmental politics. Chapters are written by leading scholars that are subject matter experts in policies, institutions, or strategies of governance. An additional bonus within the new edition is a chapter on the emerging role of China as a major industrial player that must be considered in resolving a variety of environmental policy problems on a global scale. This book combines good political analysis with an accessible writing style.”
- Charles Davis, Colorado State University“This latest edition of Kraft and Vig’s classic edited collection, Environmental Policy once again demonstrates their ability to craft the perfect reader. For over a quarter century, as the field of environmental policy has developed, Environmental Policy has kept one step ahead of the latest trends. If you are teaching a course in environmental politics or policy and you want to cover the field with high quality and accessible scholarship, you will find no better collection of readings.”
- Steven Cohen, The Earth Institute, Columbia University“Vig and Kraft have done it again! For the seventh time, they have collaborated with several excellent expert policy analysts to provide a set of highly readable information on one of the most important policy sectors of our time. Successive classes of students of mine have used updated Environmental Policy editions over the past decade-and-a-half, and I am continually impressed by the authors' ability to provide current, relevant, and engaging materials that promote comprehensive environmental policy analysis.”
- Mark Starik, George Washington University
Bio(s)
Norman J. Vig, Carleton College
Norman J. Vig is Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus, at Carleton College. He has written extensively on environmental policy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics. In addition, he is coeditor with Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union and with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd Edition.
Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
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, 5th Edition, and coauthor of Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 3rd Edition. In addition, he is coeditor of Business and Environmental Policy, with Sheldon Kamieniecki, and Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd Edition, with Daniel A. Mazmanian.
