Environmental Politics and Policy

Available this summer in its eighth edition, Rosenbaum€s classic, comprehensive text once more provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues.

Notable revisions include:
€ A completely revamped energy chapter covering conventional energy policy as well as a comparative examination of alternatives to current energy production.
€ Expanded discussion of current U.S. climate change policy with attention to the role of the states, the impact of global environmental politics, and emerging technologies on policy alternatives.
€ Analysis of the Obama administration€s energy agenda and its profound differences from Bush administration policies and the practical difficulties of creating an effective political coalition in support of the new policy agenda.
€ Greater emphasis on executive-congressional relations in the policy-making cycle.
€ Examination of changes in the environmental movement, with particular attention to newly emerging cleavages over energy and climate issues.
€ A thorough updating of all policy chapters, including an examination of such topics as €œmountain top removal,€ the emergence of Bisphenol A as an endocrine disruptor issue, and the €œnew NIMBYism.€

New and revised tables, figures, and other data illustrate key environmental information while a new, detailed timeline frames the initial chapter€s historical narrative of evolving environmental policy.