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

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ISBN 10: 145220330X ISBN 13: 9781452203300

Casa editrice: Cq Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Authoritative and trusted, the eighth edition of Environmental Policy once again 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.

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L'autore:

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.

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, 7th ed. (2018), 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, 10th ed. (2019), with 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. He has long taught courses in environmental policy and ­politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis.

 

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cq Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 145220330X
• ISBN 13: 9781452203300
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 460
• Redattore: Vig Norman J., Kraft Michael E.