Environmental Policy and Politics (Revised, 4th Edition)

摘要

Michael Kraft's Environmental Policy and Politics has long set the standard for excellence as a textbook for courses on American environmental politics. His new fourth edition rises to that standard again. Concern about climate change and the coming peak of world oil supplies have both increased the attention given to environmental issues and brought heightened conflict to the field, yet Kraft continues to do an outstanding job describing and explaining the issues.rnKraft does an especially good job of sketching out the big picture. He opens with a review of environmental problems, showing that much has been done, but that much more remains to be done. American air and water are far cleaner and healthier than they were forty years ago, but air and water quality still pose health risks in some areas, and an entirely new and more difficult set of problems has developed associated with climate change.