Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

by Norman J. Vig (Editor), Michael E. Kraft (Editor), Barry G. Rabe (Editor)

Overview

Authoritative and trusted, 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 the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics.

The Eleventh Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine the public’s opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy, natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump administration's four years of policy changes and students will walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges that policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544378015
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/25/2021
Edition description:	Eleventh Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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.

Barry G. Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and the

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School

of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also serves as a nonresident senior

fellow at the Brookings Institution and as a fellow of the National Academy of Public

Administration. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Statehouse

and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings,

2004), which received the 2017 Martha Derthick Book Award from the American

Political Science Association for making a lasting contribution to the study of federalism.

His latest books are Can We Price Carbon? (MIT Press, 2018) and Trump, the

Administrative Presidency, and Federalism (Brookings, 2020), coauthored with Frank J.

Thompson and Kenneth K. Wong, and he is currently working on a book examining

the politics of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

About the Editors xiii

About the Contributors xv

Part I Environmental Policy and Politics In Transition

Chapter 1 US Environmental Policy: A Half-Century Assessment Michael E. Kraft Norman J. Vig 3

Chapter 2 Racing to the Top, the Bottom, or the Middle of the Pack? The Evolving State Government Role in Environmental Protection Barry G. Rabe 35

Chapter 3 Politics, Prices, and Proof: American Public Opinion on Environmental Policy Christopher Borick Erick Lachapelle 63

Part II Federal Institutions and Policy Change

Chapter 4 Presidential Powers and Environmental Policy Norman J. Vig 87

Chapter 5 Environmental Policy in Congress Michael E. Kraft 111

Chapter 6 Environmental Policy in the Courts Kimberly Smith 137

Chapter 7 The Environmental Protection Agency Richard N. L Andrews 155

Part III Public Policy Dilemmas

Chapter 8 Energy Policy Sanya Carley 181

Chapter 9 Natural Resource Policies in an Era of Polarized Politics William R. Lowry John Freemuth 205

Chapter 10 Applying Market Principles to Environmental Policy Sheila M. Olmstead 227

Chapter 11 Sustainability and Resilience in Cities: What Cities Are Doing Kent E Portney Bryce Hannibal 249

Part IV Global Issues and Controversies

Chapter 12 Global Climate Change Governance: Can the Promise of Paris Be Realized? Henrik Selin Stacy D. VanDeveer 275

Chapter 13 Environment, Population, and the Developing World Richard J. Tobin 301

Chapter 14 Creating the Green Economy: Government, Business, and a Sustainable Future Daniel J. Fiorino 323

Part V Conclusion

Chapter 15 Conclusion: Environmental Policy in Crisis Norman J. Vig Michael E Kraft Barry G. Rabe 347

Appendix 1 Major Federal Laws on the Environment, 1969-2020 375

Appendix 2 Budgets of Selected Environmental and Natural Resource Agencies, 1930-2020 [in Billions of Nominal and Constant Dollars] 387

Appendix 3 Employees in Selected Federal Agencies and Departments 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 389

Appendix 4 Federal Spending on Natural Resources and the Environment, Selected Fiscal Years, 1980-2020 (in Billions of Nominal and Constant Dollars) 391

Index 393

Editorial Reviews

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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Describing and analyzing environmental policy in the United States on the global, national, and local levels, this book focus on underlying trends, institutional shortcomings, and policy dilemmas that impinge on environmental controversies. Seventeen chapters are presented by Vig (political science, Carleton College) and Kraft (political science, U. of Wisconsin at Green Bay). The role of public opinion and environmental activists in promoting change is analyzed and the impact of state and community environmental policy on the federal level is discussed. The four federal institutions and their role in policy setting or blocking are examined. Broad economic, scientific, moral, and business dilemmas are explored and, finally, specific issues and controversies are considered. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The book’s greatest strength is its coverage of both politics and policy and an awareness of how political and structural factors influence environmental policy. I also think that some of the chapters are very well-written and offer some helpful tables and charts, and an abundance of good links to websites.”

Robert Duffy

‘”Excellent overview of the role of federal institutions in environmental policy…thoughtful examination of various approaches to environmental policy, including regulatory, market-based, and voluntary approaches. "

Melissa K. Merry

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

Jeff W. Justice

This book provides a valuable guide to creating an environmental policy course, and the chapters are useful primers for students on these topics.”

Raymond M. Lodato

[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.”

Daniel Fiorino

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.”

Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo