Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

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. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics.

The Eleventh 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. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine the public’s opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy, natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump administration′s four years of policy changes and students will walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges that policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.

Norman J. Vig is the Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology,

and Society emeritus at Carleton College. He has written extensively on environmental

policy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditor

with Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States

and 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).

Michael E. Kraft is professor emeritus of political science

and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green

Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental

Policy and Politics, 8th ed. (2022), and coauthor of

Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental

Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel.

In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy:

New Directions in the 21st Century, 12th ed. (2025), with

Barry G. Rabe and Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable

Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with

Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the

American Political System (2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013),

with Sheldon Kamieniecki. For over forty years, he taught courses in environmental policy and

politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis.

Barry G. Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and the

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School

of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also serves as a nonresident senior

fellow at the Brookings Institution and as a fellow of the National Academy of Public

Administration. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Statehouse

and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings,

2004), which received the 2017 Martha Derthick Book Award from the American

Political Science Association for making a lasting contribution to the study of federalism.

His latest books are Can We Price Carbon? (MIT Press, 2018) and Trump, the

Administrative Presidency, and Federalism (Brookings, 2020), coauthored with Frank J.

Thompson and Kenneth K. Wong, and he is currently working on a book examining

the politics of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane.