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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 readers 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, China s 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

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1933116013
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978-1933116013
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6th
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CQ Press
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July 13, 2005
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English
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6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
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394 pages
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Inessa M. Hamilton Lee

informative and interesting

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2007

a lot of books in this genre can be dry and a total snooze to read. this book is written not only well and full of great information, but it is such an easy read. i read through chapters faster than any other "text" book i have had. i was entertained enough that it is questionable if i wasn't reading the book for pleasure instead of work. :)

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Newest in a classic series

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2000

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This is the new edition of "Environmental Policy in the 1990s," a series now considered to be the most important in the field. This edition has some of the classic essays from earlier editions, but is expanded to cover the Clinton administration and address issues of a global nature.

I have been using this series as a basic text in graduate courses in environmental policy for years. I consider it to be a primary source of not only teaching, but research and basic information. All of the essays are clearly written and as unbiased as possible. I give this my highest recommendation.

(Addendum in 2007. This series is up to six editions with a seventh due out this summer. All are essential for the serious student of environmental policy and history).

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L. L. Lane

Shallow Views of Complex Issues

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012

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This book is deeply disappointing. In buying it, I expected to find two things. The first was a broad assessment of the trade-offs posed by the main environmental policy issues. The second was insight into the forces that shape policy-making in this realm. I found neither.

With regard to the first goal, the book falls far short. Several of the chapters, seem to assume that environmental values rank above all others. To pick a single instance, at several points the book mentions George W. Bush's of rejection of the Kyoto Protocol. It fails, though, to note that agreement's manifest defects. In fact, Kyoto's costs were high compared to the emission reductions it would have made. Its burden would have fallen disproportionately on the United State. There are also good reasons for doubting the wisdom of letting China and India out of all real commitments. The reader gets at most hints of these factors; as a result, he has little ground for judging either the Bush climate policy or that of Clinton / Gore.

The book is equally shallow in explaining the policy process. The article by Dr. Olmstead discusses using benefit-cost analysis and market-based policies. Her treatment is fine as far as it goes. Why, though, given the article's valid case for adopting these policy tools, does their use still remain relatively infrequent? Still more puzzling, why do governments go on imposing new, needlessly costly, command and control regulations? Dr. Olmstead's points are hardly new. A reader interested in learning about environmental policy might well want explanations. Unfortunately, he will learn little of interest from reading the volume put together by Professors Vig and Kraft.

Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century

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Maddy

Warning: This Book is EXTREMELY Biased

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2009

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This book is INCREDIBLY biased. It's basically an excuse to bash the Republicans and all conservatives in general. It does not portray events and facts fairly. For example, when the Democratic Congress or President failed to accomplish, they are called well-intentioned but constrained by political pressures. If the Republicans fail to accomplish, they are labeled actively anti-environmental and "secretly" taking advantage of their power to purposely harm the environment. The policies and concepts are well-explained, but the rampant bias makes the book much less credible. It's really hard to take seriously.

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