Environmental politics and policy - Softcover

Rosenbaum, Walter A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871875462 ISBN 13: 9780871875464

Publisher: CQ Press, 1991

Synopsis

This celebrated exploration of how environmental policy is made provides readers with a balanced yet critical account of how U.S. environmental policy is made and what political forces and actors shape it. In this fourth edition, Walter A. Rosenbaum covers the entire three decades of the environmental era as he extends the discussion through the Clinton years.

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About the Author

Walter A. Rosenbaum is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan, where he specializes in environmental and energy policy. He has served as a special assistant in the Office of the Assistant Administrator for Policy Planning and Evaluation at the Environmental Protection Agency and as consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy on environmental cleanup of nuclear weapons facilities. He is the author of Energy, Politics, and Public Policy, and has written numerous articles. His recent activities include research as a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies, Harvard University, and as a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science in International Affairs. He has been a consultant to the Working Group of the South Florida (Everglades) Environmental Restoration Project and is currently a consultant to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to Resources for the Future Press. key environmental data.

Review

Because of its thoroughness, clarity, and depth, Environmental Politics & Policy has long been the benchmark text for courses in environmental affairs. The new edition continues this tradition with substantial new material covering the Obama administration and expanded coverage of current issues and controversies. The author is one of the pioneers and major scholars in the field of environmental policy and politics. Highly recommended. --David W Orr, Oberlin College

As with every edition, Tony Rosenbaum's Environmental Politics and Policy is the best single-author U.S. environmental policy text on the market. The narrative is always engaging, and each chapter offers fascinating insights in addition to necessary, up-to-date and fundamental information. Rosenbaum provides plenty of environmental data to support his conclusions, which makes the text even more attractive to interdisciplinary environmental science and studies students. --Daniel Press, University of California Santa Cruz

Environmental Politics and Policy has well organized, coherent chapters that work well to support lectures, and makes good use of case studies and examples that make the text easy for students to understand. Many of my students are environmental majors and have no background in political science or are political science majors with no environmental background; this book is accessible to both groups. I like the balance between the discussion of policy and specific environmental issues. --Shannon Orr, Bowling Green State University

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871875462
• ISBN 13: 9780871875464
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336