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This work for undergraduate students, researchers, academics, and policymakers explains the most important developments in environmental policy and politics since the 1960s and analyzes current issues. For the seventh edition, five new chapters have been added on national security and the environment, China's environmental problems, domestic and international actions on climate change, conflicts over US natural resource policies and collaborative ecosystem management, and the role of economics and market incentives in environmental policy. It incorporates analysis of the impact of the Bush era, and looks ahead to the Obama administration. Chapters are in sections on environmental policy and politics in transition, federal institutions and policy change, public policy dilemmas, and global and domestic issues and controversies. Appendices give tables and statistics on major federal laws, budgets and employees in selected agencies, and federal spending on natural resources and the environment from 1980 to 2008. Vig is professor of science, technology, and society, emeritus, at Carleton College. Kraft is professor of political science, public affairs, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Click here to preview chapter 1.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 industryurban sustainability initiatives the environmental effects of national security decisions economic development and the environment
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