Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental policy from the seventies to the nineties : continuity and change / Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig -- Presidential leadership : from the Reagan to the Bush administration / Norman J. Vig -- A new federalism? : environmental policy in the states / James P. Lester -- Public opinion and the green lobby : poised for the 1990s? / Robert Cameron Mitchell -- Environmental gridlock : searching for consensus in Congress / Michael E. Kraft -- The "NIMBY" syndrome : facility siting and the failure of democratic discourse / Daniel Mazmanian and David Morell -- Economics, incentives, and environmental regulation / A. Myrick Freeman III -- Risk assessment : regulation and beyond / Richard N.L. Andrews. Environmental policy in the courts / Lettie M. Wenner -- Environmental dispute resolution : the promise and the pitfalls / Douglas J. Amy -- Comprehensive environmental decision making : can it work? / Robert V. Bartlett -- Environmental policy in Europe and Japan / David Vogel -- Environment, population, and development in the Third World / Richard J. Tobin -- International environmental politics : America's response to global imperatives / Lynton K. Caldwell -- Moral outrage and the progress of environmental policy : what do we tell the next generation about how to care for the Earth? / Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith -- Environmental values and democracy : the challenge of the next century / Robert C. Paehlke -- Conclusion : toward a new environmental agenda / Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft.