Environmental Policy: New Directions For the Twenty-First Century, 6th Edition

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 readers 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 industry
• urban sustainability initiatives
• the environmental effects of national security decisions
• economic development and the environment

Norman J. Vig is 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 E. Kraft) of Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition (2003). His most recent book is Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, coedited with Michael G. Faure (2004).

Michael E. Kraft is professor of political science and public affairs and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives (2004) with Scott R. Furlong, Environmental Policy and Politics, 3rd ed. (2003), and the coeditor of Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste (1993), with Riley E. Dunlap and Eugene A. Rosa; Environmental Policy: New Directions in the 21st Century, 5th ed. (2002) and Technology and Politics (1988), with Norman J. Vig; and Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (1999), with Daniel A. Mazmanian.