Description

Clear and professional

As environmental challenges grow more urgent and policy debates more complex, Environmental Policy brings together leading scholars to examine key changes and enduring patterns in American environmental policy since the late 1960s. The course equips students with tools to analyze underlying trends, institutional constraints, and persistent policy dilemmas that shape contemporary environmental politics, while critically assessing strategies for addressing future challenges.

More engaging / student-facing

As environmental issues intensify and policy challenges evolve, Environmental Policy unites leading scholars to explore how American environmental policy has changed—and endured—since the late 1960s. Students develop the skills to identify major trends, institutional limits, and policy dilemmas shaping today’s environmental politics, while evaluating competing approaches to future environmental challenges.

Concise

Environmental Policy examines the evolution of American environmental policy since the late 1960s, highlighting both change and continuity. Students analyze key trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas shaping contemporary environmental politics and assess responses to emerging environmental challenges.