Coming to grips with today’s environmental policy challenges is no small feat. What are the practical problems involved with sustainable development policies? What impact do environmental values have on public opinion and policymaking? What roles have the states taken in environmental policy innovation? Rosenbaum’s classic, comprehensive text offers definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues.

This updated seventh edition presents an extensive revision and update with:

• sharp evaluation of the Bush administration’s most significant environmental decisions, with particular attention to the conflict between conservative and environmentalist approaches to ecological issues;
• increased emphasis on the interaction of global and domestic environmental issues, such as climate change and growing importance of other transboundary issues in the domestic economy
• balanced discussion of petroleum consumption and its environmental impact;
• greater attention to the politics of energy conservation, including regulatory and technological approaches;
• and increased coverage of environmental justice issues.

New and revised tables and figures capture key environmental data while additional Web-based references and research materials point students toward further study.

1. After Earth Day: American Environmentalism in Transformation
From Wonder Chemical to Contraband: The Struggle to Protect the Ozone Layer
The Environmental Legacy
The Political Legacy: From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future
Plan for the Book
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

2. Making Policy: The Process
The Policy Cycle
Constitutional Constraints
Incrementalism
Interest-Group Liberalism
Organized Environmentalism
Environmentalism and Its Critics
The Public and Environmentalism
The Special Place of Science in Policy Making
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

3. Making Policy: Institutions and Politics
The Presidency
Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance
The Bureaucracy: Power Through Implementation
The Political Environment of Environmental Policy Making
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

4. Common Policy Challenges: Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice
A Toxic Nightmare from Toyland?
Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science
What Risks Are Acceptable?
Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

5. More Choice: The Battle over Regulatory Economics
The Benefit-Cost Debate
Regulation Strategies: Command and Control versus the Marketplace
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

6. Command and Control in Action: Air and Water Pollution Regulation
The Political Anatomy of Command-and-Control Regulation
Regulating Air Quality
Regulating Water Quality
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

7. A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances
An Ambiguous Inheritance
The Rush to Regulate
Federal Law: Regulation from the Cradle to the Grave?
The Regulatory Thicket
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

8. Energy: Nuclear Dreams, Black Gold, and Vanishing Crude
Fossil Fuels and Public Apathy: A Perilous Combination
Nuclear Twilight or Second Dawn?
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Middle
Stubborn Hope: Breakthrough Technology, the White House, and the Greenhouse
The Cold War’s Wasteland: Nuclear Weapons Facilitiesv Black Gold
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

9. 635 Million Acres of Politics: The Battle for Public Lands
ANWR: Public Land Politics at a Boil
A History of Contested Access
The Public Domain
Conflicts over Multiple Use
The Pluralistic Politics of the Public Lands
The Fate of the Forests
How Much Wilderness Is Enough?
Conclusion
Suggested Readings
Notes

10. The United States and Climate Diplomacy: The Emerging Politics of Global Environmentalism
Prologue: The Green House Visits the White House
Transboundary Environmental Politics
Climate Diplomacy: Ozone Politics and the Montreal Protocols
Climate Diplomacy: Acid Precipitation
Climate Diplomacy: Climate Warming
The Emerging Politics of Sustainability
Conclusion: The End as the Beginning
Suggested Readings
Notes

Walter A. Rosenbaum is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida and director emeritus of the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service. His recent activities include an analysis of the EPA’s capacity for climate change regulation, prepared for the Brookings Institution; an examination of the data requirements for a new Federal Environmental Legacy Act; and preparation of an energy policy text for CQ Press. He has also served as a staff member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health, Tulane University Medical College. In addition to his teaching and research, he has been a consultant to the EPA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the South Florida Ecosystem (Everglades) Restoration Project.