As environmental issues continue to become more prevalent in society and surrounding policy challenges become more complex,
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 current policy. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics as they evaluate approaches to future challenges.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition
US Environmental Policy: An Overview – Michael E. Kraft and Barry G. Rabe
Racing to the Top, the Bottom, or the Middle of the Pack? The Evolving State Government Role in Environmental Protection – Barry G. Rabe
Priorities, Preferences, and Policy: Twenty-First Century Public Opinion on the Environment – Christopher Borick and Erick Lachapelle
Federal Institutions and Policy Change
Presidential Powers and Environmental Policy – Norman J. Vig
Environmental Policy in Congress – Michael E. Kraft
Environmental Policy in the Courts – Kimberly Smith
The Environmental Protection Agency – Richard N. L. Andrews
Public Policy Dilemmas
Energy Policy – Sanya Carley
Natural Resource Policies in an Era of Polarized Politics – William R. Lowry
Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy – Sheila M. Olmstead
Sustainability in Cities – Sara Hughes and Aaron Deslatte
Global Issues and Controversies
Global Climate Change Governance: Where Next After Paris – Henrik Selin and Stacy D. Van Deveer
Environment, Population, and the Developing World – Richard J. Tobin
Creating the Green Economy: Government, Business, and a Sustainable Future – Daniel J. Fiorino
Conclusion
Conclusion: Emerging Challenges in Environmental Policy – Barry G. Rabe and Michael E. Kraft
Über den Autor
Norman J. Vig is the Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society emeritus at Carleton College. He has written extensively on environmentalpolicy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditorwith Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United Statesand the European Union (MIT Press, 2004) and with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd ed.(CQ Press, 2005).