Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

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Michael E. Kraft is a professor of political science and the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies emeritus at the University of WisconsinGreen Bay. He is the author of Environmental Policy and Politics 7th ed. (2018) and coauthor of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (2011 winner of the Lynton K. Caldwell award for best book on environmental politics and policy that year) and of Public Policy: Politics Analysis and Alternatives 7th ed. (2021). In addition he is coeditor of both the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Policy (2013) and Business and Environmental Policy (2007) with Sheldon Kamieniecki and of Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy 2nd ed. (2009) with Daniel A. Mazmanian.  Barry G. Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chaired the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Assumable Waters Committee from 2015 to 2017. He is the author of numerous books and articles including Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy which received the 2017 Martha Derthick Book Award from the American Political Science Association for making a lasting contribution to the study of federalism. His latest books are Can We Price Carbon? (MIT Press 2018) and Trump the Administrative Presidency and Federalism (Brookings 2020) and he is currently working on a book examining the politics surrounding methane emissions. Norman J. Vig is the Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science Technology and Society emeritus at Carleton College. He has written extensively on environmental policy science and technology policy and comparative politics and is coeditor with Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (2004) and with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions Law and Policy 2nd ed. (2005).