- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- About the Contributors
- The Evolution of Research on U.S. Environmental Policy
- Environmental Politics and Policy in Historical Perspective
- Green Political Ideas and Environmental Policy
- Evolving Concepts of Sustainability in Environmental Policy
- Ethical Challenges in Environmental Policy
- Environmental Security and U.S. Politics
- Capacity for Governance: Innovation and the Challenge of the Third Era
- U.S. Climate Change Politics: Federalism and Complexity
- Sustainable Development and Governance
- United States International Environmental Policy
- Global Environmental Policy Making
- Courts, Legal Analysis, and Environmental Policy
- Congress and Environmental Policy
- The American Presidency and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Bureaucracies: The Environmental Protection Agency
- Bureaucracy and Natural Resources Policy
- Defining Environmental Rule Making
- Environmental Federalism and the Role of State and Local Governments
- The Promise and Performance of Collaborative Governance
- Issue Framing, Agenda Setting, and Environmental Discourse
- Public Opinion on Environmental Policy in the United States
- Public Participation, Citizen Engagement, and Environmental Decision Making
- Organized Interests and Environmental Policy
- Parties, Campaigns, and Elections
- The Role of Market Incentives in Environmental Policy
- Flexible Approaches to Environmental Regulation
- Ecosystem-Based Management and Restoration
- The Use of Strategic Planning, Information, and Analysis in Environmental Policy Making and Management
- Environmental Policy and Science
- Environmental Policy Evaluation and the Prospects for Public Learning
- Research on U.S. Environmental Policy in the New Century
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article discusses the emergence of the environment as a global policy issue and the ways in which the international community has responded to global environmental problems, focusing on the period since the first global conference on the environment, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. It assesses the role of the United States in global environmental governance over this time period, as well as the impacts of global environmental policy on the country itself. It also traces the emergence and maturation of a distinct body of academic literature: global, or international, environmental politics. Beginning as a subfield of international relations theory, this literature has broadened into an interdisciplinary social science field of its own, addressing both the political causes of the global environmental crisis and the politics of global environmental governance.
Keywords: environmental policy, environmental problems, United States, environmental governance, environmental politics
Kate O’Neill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- About the Contributors
- The Evolution of Research on U.S. Environmental Policy
- Environmental Politics and Policy in Historical Perspective
- Green Political Ideas and Environmental Policy
- Evolving Concepts of Sustainability in Environmental Policy
- Ethical Challenges in Environmental Policy
- Environmental Security and U.S. Politics
- Capacity for Governance: Innovation and the Challenge of the Third Era
- U.S. Climate Change Politics: Federalism and Complexity
- Sustainable Development and Governance
- United States International Environmental Policy
- Global Environmental Policy Making
- Courts, Legal Analysis, and Environmental Policy
- Congress and Environmental Policy
- The American Presidency and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Bureaucracies: The Environmental Protection Agency
- Bureaucracy and Natural Resources Policy
- Defining Environmental Rule Making
- Environmental Federalism and the Role of State and Local Governments
- The Promise and Performance of Collaborative Governance
- Issue Framing, Agenda Setting, and Environmental Discourse
- Public Opinion on Environmental Policy in the United States
- Public Participation, Citizen Engagement, and Environmental Decision Making
- Organized Interests and Environmental Policy
- Parties, Campaigns, and Elections
- The Role of Market Incentives in Environmental Policy
- Flexible Approaches to Environmental Regulation
- Ecosystem-Based Management and Restoration
- The Use of Strategic Planning, Information, and Analysis in Environmental Policy Making and Management
- Environmental Policy and Science
- Environmental Policy Evaluation and the Prospects for Public Learning
- Research on U.S. Environmental Policy in the New Century
- Index
