Environmental Policy and Politics

by Michael E. Kraft

For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and natural resource problems in the United States. Now in its eighth edition, Michael E. Kraft has updated his definitive text to capture the changing nature of environmental problems as well as policy proposals made through 2020. Drawing from work within environmental science, policy analysis, and political science, this text continues to help readers think critically about how best to address problems through a variety of public policy tools and strategies at all levels of government. Important updates to this new edition include: • The latest information about environmental challenges and governmental responses to them, with extensive citation of key sources and websites. • Key political and policy decisions through late 2020, including presidential appointments, budgetary decisions, major legislative initiatives, and congressional actions. • New learning objectives to facilitate student understanding of key concepts and their applications, arguments advanced over environmental challenges and policies, and the goals and methods of environmental policy analysis. • Coverage of new topics that have emerged during the Trump presidency, including the Clean Power Plan repeal and reduction of environmental regulation, climate change, land conservation, changes in natural resources policies, and a comparison of the Republican and Democratic positions on climate change in 2020. • Updated summaries of scientific studies, government reports, and policy analyses. • Revised discussion questions and new suggested readings. Environmental Policy and Politics is an essential resource for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in political science and environmental studies looking for an accessible, well-researched, and up-to-date text, written with style and flair.

Genres: Politics, Science, Environmental Science, Environment

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs Emeritus and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Reviews

[Echo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dense, but readable and very informative. Lines out exactly how decisions are made, arguments are formed, and resources are allocated in our current and historical political climate, and points to ways to move forward.

Definitely not a pleasure read, but it does what it needs to do.

[Brennan Lauritzen]

I wish this textbook had more graphs, estimates of the benefits of environmental policy. In short I wish it were more economic and less a summary/history of environmental policy.

[Miranda · Rating 3 out of 5]

PLS 303: Environmental Policy & Politics

[Julie Ridings · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of great resources in the additional suggested readings at the end of each chapter.

[Nathan Salazar]

Extensive research and discussion about effective environmental policies.