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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1506383467
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506383460
• Author: Norman J. Vig (Editor), Michael E. Kraft (Editor)

Authoritative and trusted, 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 the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics.

The Tenth Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. The book provides in-depth examinations of public policy dilemmas including fracking, food production, urban sustainability, and the viability of using market solutions to address policy challenges. Students will also develop a deeper understanding of global issues such as climate change governance, the implications of the Paris Agreement, and the role of environmental policy in the developing world. Students walk away with a measured yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.

Table contents:

Part I. Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition

1. U.S. Environmental Policy: 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. Environmental Advocacy at the Dawn of the Trump Era: Assessing Strategies for the Preservation of Progress – Luis E. Hestres and Matthew C. Nisbet

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

7. The Environmental Protection Agency – Richard N. L. Andrews

Part III. Public Policy Dilemmas

8. Energy Policy: Fracking, Coal, and the Water-Energy Nexus – Edward P. Weber, David Bernell, Hilary S. Boudet, and Patricia Fernandez-Guajardo

9. Eating and the Environment: Ecological Tensions in Food Production – Christopher Bosso and Nicole E. Tichenor

10. Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy – Sheila M. Olmstead

11. Toward Sustainable Production: Finding Workable Strategies for Government and Industry – Daniel Press and Daniel A. Mazmanian

12. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: What Cities Are Doing – Kent E. Portney

Part IV. Global Issues and Controversies

13. Global Climate Change Governance: Where to Go After Paris? – Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

14. Environment, Population, and the Developing World – Richard J. Tobin

Part V. Conclusion

15. Conclusion: Past and Future Environmental Challenges – Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft

Appendices

Appendix 1. Major Federal Laws on the Environment, 1969–2017

Appendix 2. Budgets of Selected Environmental and Natural Resource Agencies, 1980–2017

Appendix 3. Employees in Selected Federal Agencies and Departments, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010

Appendix 4. Federal Spending on Natural Resources and the Environment, Selected Fiscal Years, 1980–2017

Index