Environmental Policy : New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

by Vig, Norman J.; Kraft, Michael E.; Kraft, Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9781568023410
• ISBN10: 1568023413
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

In this best-selling collection of essays, a team of distinguished contributors seeks to explain the most important developments in environmental policy and politics since the 1960s, and to analyze the central issues that face us in the new century.

Environmental Policy focuses on underlying trends, institutional frameworks and shortcomings, and policy dilemmas that citizens and lawmakers face in attempting to resolve environmental controversies. This new fourth edition has been thoroughly revised to include the latest data, research, and policy initiatives in the field.

Readers interested in President Clinton's environmental record, or those wondering how the "Republican Revolution" and attempts to downsize the federal government will affect environmental policy will find helpful new insights in this new edition. Two new chapters focus on climate change and the "new era" in natural resource policies. The theme of sustainable development -- the reconciliation of environmental goals with economic necessities -- receives attention throughout.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xiii
I. Environmental Policy and Politics in Transition
Environmental Policy from the 1970s to 2000: An Overview	1	(31)
Michael E. Kraft
Norman J. Vig
Power to the States: The Promise and Pitfalls of Decentralization	32	(23)
Barry G. Rabe
Environmental Groups and the New Political Landscape	55	(22)
Christopher J. Bosso
Environmental Values and Public Policy	77	(21)
Robert C. Paehlke
II. Federal Institutions and Policy Change
Presidential Leadership and the Environment: From Reagan to Clinton	98	(23)
Norman J. Vig
Environmental Policy in Congress: From Consensus to Gridlock	121	(24)
Michael E. Kraft
Environmental Policy in the Courts	145	(20)
Lettie McSpadden
Escaping the ``Battered Agency Syndrome'': EPA's Gamble with Regulatory Reinvention	165	(25)
Walter A. Rosenbaum
III. Public Policy Dilemmas
Economics, Incentives, and Environmental Regulation	190	(20)
A. Myrick Freeman III
Risk-Based Decisionmaking	210	(22)
Richard N. L. Andrews
Environmental Justice: Normative Concerns and Empirical Evidence	232	(25)
Evan J. Ringquist
Understanding the Transition to a Sustainable Economy	257	(24)
Daniel Press
Daniel A. Mazmanian
IV. Global and Domestic Issues and Controversies
Climate Policy on the Installment Plan	281	(22)
Lamont C. Hempel
Natural Resource Policies in the Twenty-First Century	303	(23)
William R. Lowry
Environment, Population, and the Developing World	326	(24)
Richard J. Tobin
International Trade and Environmental Regulation	350	(20)
David Vogel
V. Conclusion
Toward Sustainable Development	370	(19)
Norman J. Vig
Michael E. Kraft
Appendixes	389	(10)
Index	399