Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

Available this summer in its Eighth Edition, RosenbaumÆs classic, comprehensive text once more provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. Notable revisions include: • A completely revamped energy chapter covering conventional energy policy as well as a comparative examination of alternatives to current energy production. ò Expanded discussion of current U.S. climate change policy with attention to the role of the states, the impact of global environmental politics, and emerging technologies on policy alternatives. ò Analysis of the Obama administrationÆs energy agenda and its profound differences from Bush administration policies and the practical difficulties of creating an effective political coalition in support of the new policy agenda. ò Greater emphasis on executive-congressional relations in the policy-making cycle. ò Examination of changes in the environmental movement, with particular attention to newly emerging cleavages over energy and climate issues. ò A thorough updating of all policy chapters, including an examination of such topics as ômountain top removal,ö the emergence of Bisphenol A as an endocrine disruptor issue, and the ônew NIMBYism.ö New and revised tables, figures, and other data illustrate key environmental information while a new, detailed timeline frames the initial chapterÆs historical narrative of evolving environmental policy.

Table of Contents:
I. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND POLITICS IN TRANSITION 1. Environmental Policy over Four Decades: 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. “High Hopes and Bitter Disappointment”: Public Discourse and the Limits of the Environmental Movement in Climate Change Politics - Deborah Lynn Guber and Christopher J. Bosso 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 III. PUBLIC POLICY DILEMMAS 7. Science, Politics, and Policy at the EPA - Walter A. Rosenbaum 8. Conflict and Cooperation in Natural Resource Management - Mark Lubell and Brian Segee 9. Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy - Sheila M. Olmstead 10. Toward Sustainable Production: Finding Workable Strategies for Government and Industry - Daniel Press and Daniel A. Mazmanian 11. Sustainable Development and Urban Life in North America - Robert C. Paehlke IV. GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES 12. Global Climate Change: Beyond Kyoto - Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer 13. Environment, Population, and the Developing World - Richard J. Tobin 14. China’s Quest for a Green Economy - Kelly Sims Gallagher and Joanna I. Lewis 15. Environmental Security - Richard A. Matthew V. CONCLUSION 16. Conclusion: Toward Sustainable Development? - Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft

About the Author :
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.