Michael E. Kraft & Barry G. Rabe 
Environmental Policy 
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

As environmental issues continue to become more prevalent in society and surrounding policy challenges become more complex,  
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 current policy. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics as they evaluate approaches to future challenges.

Table of Content

Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition

US Environmental Policy: An Overview – Michael E. Kraft and Barry G. Rabe

Racing to the Top, the Bottom, or the Middle of the Pack? The Evolving State Government Role in Environmental Protection – Barry G. Rabe

Priorities, Preferences, and Policy: Twenty-First Century Public Opinion on the Environment – Christopher Borick and Erick Lachapelle

Federal Institutions and Policy Change

Presidential Powers and Environmental Policy – Norman J. Vig

Environmental Policy in Congress – Michael E. Kraft

Environmental Policy in the Courts – Kimberly Smith

The Environmental Protection Agency – Richard N. L. Andrews

Public Policy Dilemmas

Energy Policy – Sanya Carley

Natural Resource Policies in an Era of Polarized Politics – William R. Lowry

Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy – Sheila M. Olmstead

Sustainability in Cities – Sara Hughes and Aaron Deslatte

Global Issues and Controversies

Global Climate Change Governance: Where Next After Paris – Henrik Selin and Stacy D. Van Deveer

Environment, Population, and the Developing World – Richard J. Tobin

Creating the Green Economy: Government, Business, and a Sustainable Future – Daniel J. Fiorino

Conclusion

Conclusion: Emerging Challenges in Environmental Policy – Barry G. Rabe 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 environmentalpolicy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditorwith Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United Statesand 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).