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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568025203 ISBN 13: 9781568025209

Publisher: CQ Press, 1999

Synopsis

Contains 17 contributions, written by American professors of political science, economics, law, environmental studies, and other fields, organized into five sections: environmental policy and changing US environmental politics; the role of federal institutions in environmental policymaking; dilemmas in environmental policy formulation and implementation; global and domestic issues and controversies; and a conclusion, defining an agenda of major environmental issues and new policymaking approaches.

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About the Author

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. In addition, he is coeditor with Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union and with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd Edition. 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, Environmental Policy and Politics, 5th Edition, and coauthor of Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 3rd Edition. In addition, he is coeditor of Business and Environmental Policy, with Sheldon Kamieniecki, and Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd Edition, with Daniel A. Mazmanian.

Synopsis

This text focuses on underlying trends, institutional frameworks and shortcomings, and policy dilemmas that citizens and lawmakers face in attempting to resolve environmental controversies in the United States. This edition is updated to include appropriate data, research and policy initiatives.

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1568025203
• ISBN 13: 9781568025209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Vig Norman J., Kraft Michael E.