| Contents Notes |
The changing landscape of environmental politics -- Legislation: leveling the playing field and leveraging the process -- Environmental regulation and the reinvention of the EPA -- The media business and environmental politics -- Uncertain science, uncertain politics -- State and local governments: the "other" interest groups -- The shifting tides of environmental advocacy -- The greening of business: politics for profits -- Global pressures and domestic environmental politics -- On-line activism and the new environmental politics. Providing an in-depth analysis of the major stakeholders in environmental policy, this innovative book reviews the political battles over the environment from ground level, as they are fought in legislative chambers, the daily newspaper, on television, and, increasingly, on the Internet. The text views politics as a clash of interests, not ideologies, and environmental policy as a process accommodating those interests. Environmental Politics: Interest Groups, the Media, and the Making of Policy gives readers an insider's view of how policies are forged. By examining these issues through an interest group lens this book not only accounts for what policies have been adopted but shows how you can influence policy and effect change. |
