num_pages: 368
description: Authoritative and classic the seventh edition of Environmental Policy once again brings together 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. This new edition represents the most extensive revision to five new chapters include coverage of national security and the environment Chinas environmental problems domestic and international actions on climate change conflicts over U.S. natural resource policies and collaborative ecosystem management and the role of economics and market incentives in environmental policy. Incorporating analysis of the eight years under George W. Bush and a look ahead to the Barack Obama administration all chapters include new scholarship case studies poll data court rulings congressional actions agency decisions and other events at the international national state and local levels. With its clear engaging writing this tried and true reader makes great environmental research and scholarship accessible to an undergraduate audience. Environmental Policy includes new coverage 
language: English
title: Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
publisher: CQ Press