Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483352587 ISBN 13: 9781483352589

Publisher: CQ Press, 2015

Synopsis

Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy convenes 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. In the Ninth Edition, editors Norman Vig and Michael Kraft offer coverage of the latest issues, including the energy and natural resource policy dilemmas, sustainable cities, and the environmental impact of food production and consumption.  A new concluding chapter ties the contributed material together with an assessment of the remaining environmental policy challenges for the 21st century.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman J. Vig is Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Carleton College, where he taught political science and environmental studies for 37 years. He has written extensively on environmental policy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditor with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, Second Edition (2004) and of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (2004) with Michael G. Faure.

Review:

"I really enjoy using this book. The strengths are that it covers a wide variety of environmental policy issues, incorporating examples accessible to the students and theory from the academic literature. My students have only positive things to say about it."

Author: Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo

"[Environmental Policy] is an excellent collection and I plan on continuing to use it. The chapters are very well done and the topics addressed are relevant and timely. The quality is very high and presentation is outstanding."

Author: Daniel Fiorino

"The authors are very thorough in their use of primary source data and they make such data, especially websites, readily available."

Author: Jeff W. Justice

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1483352587
• ISBN 13: 9781483352589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Vig Norman J., Kraft Michael E.