Environmental Politics and Policy

A Bibliography for Teaching and Research

Prepared by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Last Updated: July 29, 2008

Contents: Basic Texts and Overviews / Journals / Maps / Environmental History / Political Ecology / Economics and Sustainability * The Tragedy of the Commons / Science, Technology, & Risk / Philosophical Views and Commentary / Environmental Politics in the United States / U.S. Regions / The U.S. Conservation Movement / U.S.-Foreign Comparison / Federalism / Congress / Presidents /  Bureaucracy * U.S. Army Corps of Engineers *  Tennessee Valley Authority / Courts & Law / Media / Public Opinion /  Environmental Interests /  Greens / Labor, Unions, Employment & Environment /  Business / Energy * Coal * Oil * Solar Power * Nuclear Power * Electricity /  NEPA / Air Pollution / Global Warming / Water Resources * Missouri River * Mississippi River * Great Lakes * Wetlands * Oceans / Water Pollution / Toxics and Toxic Waste / Superfund / Nuclear Waste / Solid Waste / Land Use & Private Property / Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl / Forests / Public Lands / National Parks / Environmental Justice / Endangered Species & Biodiversity / Animal Rights / International Problems and Policy Making / Population

Selected Environmental Politics & Policy websites

Basic Texts and Overviews

• Marc Allen Eisner, Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation (Lynne Rienner, 2006).
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
• Walter A. Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 7th ed. (CQ Press, 2007)
• Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox, 4^th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2004)
• Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy and Politics, 3rd ed. (Longman, 2004)
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, eds., Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Cahllenges ,Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004) Steven Cohen, Understanding Environmental Policy (Columbia UP, 2006).
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Glen Sussman, Byron W. Danes, and Jonathan P. West, American Politics and the Environment (Longman, 2002)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, 5th ed.  (CQ Press, 2002)
• Nico Nelissen, Jan van der Straaten, and Leon Klinkner, eds., Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies (International Books, 1997)
• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Judith A. Layzer, The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy (CQ Press, 2002)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, The New Environmental Regulation (MIT, 2006)
• Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett, eds., Environmental Policy : Transnational Issues and National Trends (Quorum Books. 1997).
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence, 2nd ed (Duke UP, 1995).
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (California UP, 1995).
• Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (Prentice Hall, 1997)
   
• Lester Brown, et al, The State of the World (annual)
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2^nd ed.,[comparative - Europe] (Cambridge UP, 2007)
• Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth (Chelsea Green, 2004)
• Mostafa K. Tolba, Saving Our Planet: Challenges and Hopes (Chapman and Hall, 1992)
• Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Quality (U.S. Government Printing Office).
• European  Environmental  Agency, The European Environment: State and Outlook, 2005

 

Journals

• Environmental Politics
• Global Environmental Politics
• Environmental History
• Journal of Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Journal
• Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
• Energy Policy
• Environment and Planning
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• Ecological Economics
• Ecology Law Quarterly
• Harvard Environmental Law Review
• EPA Journal
• Population and Environment
• Population
• Environment and Behavior
• Resources Policy
• Land Use Policy
• Marine Policy
• Food Policy
• Journal of Environment and Development
• Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

 

Maps

• Conservation and Environment Maps, Library of Congress / EPA Enviromapper
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends

 

Environmental History (see also specific topics)

• H-Environment / Environmental History Web Resources (Berkeley)
• Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2004)
• Adam Markham, A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martin's 1994).
• Richard N.L. Andrews, Managing the Environment, Managing  Ourselves:  A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (Yale UP, 2006)
• Kendall E. Bailes, ed. Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective (Lanham, MD: 1985)
• Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays (U of Pittsburgh, 1998)
• Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds, Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh, 1997).
• Donald Worster, ed., The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Cambridge, 1988)
• Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilization (Penguin)
• John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (U of California Press, 2003)
• Donald Worster, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (Oxford, 1993).
• John Young, Sustaining the Earth: The Story of the Environmental Movement - Its Past Efforts and Future Challenges (Harvard, 1990)
   
• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991) and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary ed., 2003)
• Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the US, 1955-1985
• Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford UP, 2002).
• Carolyn Merchant, The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia UP, 2002)
• Martin Melosi, Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980)
• Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006).
• William Deverell and Greg Hise, ed., Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Harold L. Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (U of Chicago Press, 2004).
• John Opie, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States (International Thomson Publishing, 1998)
• Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (University of Washington Press, 1998)
• Virginia J. Scharff, ed., Seeing Nature Through Gender (U Press of Kansas, 2003).
• Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, ed. "To Love the Wind and Rain:" African Americans and Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996) [Ballinger-Pinchot, Hetch Hetchy, Donora Smog]
• Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalogue and American Environmentalism (UP of Kansas, 2007)
• Andrew Szasz, Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)
• Journals: Environmental History * Environment and History

 

Economics and Sustainability

• World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future [the Bruntland Report] (Oxford, 1987)
• President's Council on Sustainable Development, Towards a Sustainable America (1999)
• Joy E. Hecht, National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy (Resources fo the Future, 2004)
• Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment (Cambridge UP, 2004)
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
  Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press/Shearwater, 2004)
• Robert L. Nadeau, The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment (Columbia UP, 2003)
• Ann Hooker Clarke, "Understanding Sustainable Development in the Context of Other Emergent Environmental Perspectives," Policy Sciences 35:1 (2002): 69-90
• Special issue, International Political Science Review, "The Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Concepts, Policies, and Arenas," 20:2 (April, 1999).
• Robert Costanza, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (Columbia University Press, 1991).
• Wallace E. Oates, ed. The Economics of the Environment (Edwin Elgar, 1992).
• Douglas E. Booth, The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline (London: Routledge)
• Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
• Raino Malnes, Valuing the Environment (St. Martin's, 1995).
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
• Roger Dower et al, Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1997)
• Harmut Bossel, Earth at a Crossroads: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Cambridge UP, 1998).
• John F. Steiner and Stahrl Edmunds, "Economy-Ecology Conflict: Analysis, Examples, and Policy Approaches" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3 (JAI Press, 1981).
• Frank Fischer and Michael Black, eds.  Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future? (St. Martin's, 1995).
• Neil Cunningham and Peter Grabosky, with Darren Sinclair, Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (Clarendon Press, 1998)
• Roger D. Congleton, ed., The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
• Lester W. Milbrath, Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our War Out (SUNY, 1990)
• Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (Random House, 1971).
• John S. Dryzek, Rational Ecology: Environment and Political Economy (Blackwell, 1987)
• Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, eds., Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Greenwood, 1992)
• Terry L. Anderson and R. Donald Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (Pacific Research Institute, 1991)
• Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, eds. The Political Economy of the American West (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
• American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue on "Barriers to Wiser Agreements between Environmental and Economic Concerns, 42:8 (May, 1999).

 

The Tragedy of the Commons

• Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (December 13, 1968), 1243-1248.
• David Feeny et al, “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later,” in Ken Conca, Michael Alberti, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues (Westview Press, 1995)
• John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan, Managing the Commons, 2^nd ed. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998)
• Susan J. Buck, The Global Commons: An Introduction (Island Press, 1998)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 

 

Science , Technology, & Risk (& debates over the use of science in environmental issues)

• Kerry H. Whiteside, Precautionary Politics: Principle and Politics in Confronting Environmental Risk (MIT, 2006)
• Mark R. Powell, Science at EPA: Information in the Regulatory Process (Resources for the Future Press, 1999)Dade W. Moeller, Environmental Health, 3rd ed. (Harvard UP, 2004)
• Stephen Bocking, Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• James Rogers Fleming and Henry A. Gemery, eds., Science, Technology, and the Environment: Mutlidisciplinary Perspectives (University of Akron Press, 1994).
• Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Shearwater Books, 1998)
• Williams Leiss and Douglas Powell. 2004. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

 

Philosophical and Ethical Views

• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford, 1949, 1968)
• Charles Krebs, The Ecological World View (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008)
• Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Polity/Blackwell, 1992)
• Bob Pepperman Taylor, Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Though in America (UP of Kansas, 1992)
• Roderick Nash, A History of Environmental Ethics (Wisconsin, 1989)
• John McPhee, Encounters with the archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971)
• Robert Kirkman, Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002)
• Catherine M. Raoch, Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana UP, 2003)
• Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (U of Chicago Press, 2003)
• John Barry, Environment and Social Theory (London: Routledge, 1999)
• Matthew Alan Cahn, Environmental Deceptions: The Tension Between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States (SUNY)
• Michael E. Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Prentice Hall, 1993)
• Joseph R. Des Jardins, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth, 1993)
• Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics (Temple, 1988)
• Marian R. Chertow and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1997).
• Susan L. Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of and Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (U of Wisconsin, 1994)
• David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)
• J.E. Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, 1987)
• Tom Regan, ed. (1984), Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (Random House).
• Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper and Row, 1980)
• Phillip F. Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy (Praeger, 1998).
• Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (Crown Books).
• Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern (St. Martin's, 1997).
• Greta Gaard, Ecofeminism (Temple University Press, 1993).
• Karen J. Warren, ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (Inidana UP, 1997)
• Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (Sierra Club, 1990).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• George Sessions, ed. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism (Shambala)
• Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1985)
• Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1995)
• Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as a Religious Quest (U of Washington Press, 2005)
• Victor Ferkiss, Nature, Technology, and Society: The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis (New York University Press, 1995).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• Dixy Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet (Regnery, 1990)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Julian Simon, "Global Confusion, 1980: A Hard Look at the Global 2000 Report" The Public Interest (Winter, 1981)
   
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Andrew McMurray, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the System of Nature (U of Georgia Press, 2003)
• George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (C. Scribner and Co., 1869) and  The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878; Project Gutenberg Online text)
• David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
• Thurman Wilkins, John Muir: Apostle of Nature (Oklahoma, 1995).
• Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (U of New Mexico Press, 2005)
• Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Penguin, 2007).
• Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist (Indiana University Press, 1995).
• Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
   
• Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Oxford UP, 2006)

Politics and Political Ecology

• Journal of Political Ecology
• Roderick P. Neumann, Making Political Ecology (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Martin Nie, "Drivers of Natural Resources-Based Political Conflict," Policy Science 36 (2003): 307-341.
• Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell, eds., Environmental Citizenship (MIT Press, 2005)

 

Environmental Politics in the United States

• Walter Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 5th ed. (CQ Press, 2001)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy, 5th ed (CQ Press, 2002)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence (Duke, 1989)
• Carolyn Merchant, ed., Major Problems in American Environmental History (D.C. Heath, 1993)
• Roderick Frazier Nash, American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (McGraw-Hill, 1990)
• Michael J. Lacey, Government and Environmental Protection: Essays on Historical Developments Since World War II (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (University of California, 1995).
• J. Clarence Davies and Jan Mazurek, Regulating Pollution: Does the U.S. System Work? (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1997)
• David Vogel, Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator  Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin  Press)

 

U.S. Regions

• William Cronin, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (WW Norton, 1991)
• Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach, Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002).
• Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rock Mountains. (Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
• James Sherow, ed., A Sense of the West: An Environmental History Anthology (University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
• Stephen Trimble, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (University of Nevada Press, 1999).
• Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003)

 

The U.S. Conservation Movement

• The Evolution of the U.S. Conservation Movement from the U.S. Library of Congress.
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
• David  Stradling, ed. Conservation in the  Progressive Era: Classic Texts (U of Washington Press, 2004)
• Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001).
• Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (University of Washington, 1910) and Breaking New Ground (Harcourt, Brace, 1947).
• Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1959).
• Brian Balogh, “Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot’s Path to Progressive Reform,” Environmental History 7:2 (April 2002): 198-225
• Elmo Richardson, The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913 (University of California Press, 1962).
• Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Houghton Mifflin, 1954).
• Donald C. Swain, Federal Conservation Policy, 1921-1931 (University of California Press, 1963)
• Whitney R. Cross, "W J McGee and the Idea of Conservation," Historian 15 (1953): 148-162.
• Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1997).
• James L. Penick, Progressive Politics and Conservation: The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (Loyola University Press, 1968)
• Lee Clark Mitchell, Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response (Princeton University Press, 1981)
• Edgar B. Nixon, ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957)
• Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal (Cambridge U Press, 2007)
• A.L. Riesch Owen, Conservation Under F.D.R. (Praeger, 1983)
• Neil M. Maher, “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps,” Environmental History 7:3 (July 2002): 435-461
• John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, 3rd ed. revised (Oregon State UP, 2000)
• Mark V. Brown, Jr., “Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America’s Interwar Years,” Environmental History 7:1 (January 2002): 69-98
• Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven: Yale, 2001).
• Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation (Island Press, 1997)

 

U.S. / Foreign Comparison

• Lyle A. Scruggs, "Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies," British Journal of Political Science 29 (1999): 1-31.
• David Vogel, National Styles of Regulation : Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell UP, 1986).
• John S. Dryzek, Christian Hunold, David Schlosberg, with David Downes and Hans-Kristian Hernes, “Environmental Transformation of the State: the USA, Norway, Germany, and the UK,” Political Studies 50:4 (September 2002): 659-682
• Cynthia H. Enloe, The Politics of Pollution in a Comparative Perspective (New York: David McKay, 1975)
• L. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise
• Susan Rose-Ackerman, Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (Yale UP, 1995).

• Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma, eds., Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (UP of Kentucky, 2008)

   

U.S. Constitution and Law

• Robert Meltz, Constitutional Bounds on Congress' Ability to Protect the Environment (Nova, 2003)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge, 2002)
• Nancy K. Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman, Environmental Law (Prentice-Hall, 2007)

 

Federalism

• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, “National or Local Control? Conflicts over Environmental Federalism,” Ch. 6 in Environmental Choices: Policy Response to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Peter J. May and Chris Koski. “State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates.” Review of Policy Research 24:1 (January 2007): 49–65.
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2003)
• William Lowry, The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies (Duke UP, 1992)
• Evan J. Ringquist, Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
• Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation 2nd ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2004)
• Neal D. Woods. “Interstate Competition and Environmental Regulation: A Test of the Race-to-the Bottom Thesis,” SocialScience Quarterly 87:1 (March 2006): 174-189
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
• Richard L. Revesz, "Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis," Harvard Law Review  115:2 (December 2001), 555-641.
• Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab, “Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing,” Journal of Public Economics 33(1988): 333-354.
• Kenneth M. Holland, F.L. Morton, and Brian Galligan, Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood, 1996)
• Zachary A. Smith, Environmental Politics and Policy in the West (Kendall Hunt, 1993)
• Dave Dempsey, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader (U of Michigan Press, 2003)
• David M. Hedge and Michael J. Scicchitano, "Regulating in Space and Time: The Case of Regulatory Federalism," Journal of Politics 56:1 (February 1994).

 

 

Congress

Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ways and Means, Appropriations, Commerce, Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure

Committees of the U.S. Senate: Finance, Appropriations & Subcommittees, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Commerce, Science, and Transportation

• Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2006).

• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

• Steven C. Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (U of Colorado Press, 2002)

 

Presidents

• Council on Environmental Quality (1970)
• J. Brooks Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (U of New Mexico Press, 2000)
• Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren, Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President (Resources for the Future, 2004)
• Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner, George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate (UP of Colorado, 2005)
• Tarla Rae Peterson, ed., Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology (Texas A&M UP, 2004).

Bureaucracy

• U.S. Department of the Interior (1849) / U.S. Department of Agriculture (1889)
• The U.S. Forest Service (1905) / The National Park Service (1916)
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940), The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (1946)
• Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
• Richard W. Waterman, Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004)
• Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Daniel C. McCool, Staking Out the Terrain : Power and Performance among Natural Resource Agencies (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996)
• Marc J. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, and Stephen R. Thomas, The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions, From Nixon to Clinton (Oxford, 1994).
• Steven Croley, "White House Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Empirical Investigation," University of Chicago Law Review 70:3 (Summer, 2003), 821-885
• Jeanne Neinaber Clarke and Daniel McCool, Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resources Agencies, second ed. (SUNY, 1996)
• Robert F. Durant, The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Georgetown UP, 2007)

 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / ACE Mississippi Valley Division / ACE Northwestern Division
• Arthur Maas, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation's  Rivers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951)
• William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Yale University Press, 1959).
• Forest G. Hill, Roads, Rails & Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation (University of Oklahoma Press, 1957).
• Charles F. O’Connell, Jr., “The Corps of Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management, 1827-1856,” in Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, ed. Merritt Roe Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 87-116.
• Jamie W. Moore and Dorothy P. Moore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy, (Boulder: University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science, 1989).
• Frank N. Schubert, ed. The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838 1863, Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Office of History, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.
• Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (University of Texas Press, 1994).
• Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775 1783, (Washington, D.C., Historical Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981).

 

Tennessee Valley Authority

• The Tennessee Valley Authority  website
• Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots (University of California Press, 1949).
• Erwin C. Hargrove, Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 (Princeton, 1994)
• Richard A. Colignon. 1996. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the TVA. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Steven M. Neuse, David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal (University of Tennessee Press, 1996).
• W. U. Chandler, Myth of TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933–1983 (1984).

• Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (U of Tennessee Press, 1982)

• Nancy L. Grant, TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo (Uy of Tennessee Press, 1990)

 

Courts & Law

• Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law (U of Chicago Press, 2004)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge: 2002)
• Thomas More Hoban and Richard Oliver Brooks, Green Justice: The Environment and the Courts (Westview, 1996)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).

 

Media

• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996)
• Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997).

 

Public Opinion

• Deborah Lynn Guber, The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (MIT Press, 2003)

 

Interest Groups / Greens

• Christopher J. Bosso, Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (UP of Kansas, 2005)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda-Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Robert J. Duffy, The Green Agenda in America Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century (U of Kansas Press, 2003).
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
• John Miles, Guardians of the Parks: A History of the National Parks and Conservation Association (Taylor and Francis, 1995)
• Benjamin Kline, First Along the River: A Brief History of the US Environmental Movement, 3rd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007;yh)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Elizabeth Bomberg, Green Parties and Politics in the European Union (Routledge, 1998). Michael O'Neill, Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe: New Politics, Old Predicaments (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997)
• Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998)
• Russell J. Dalton, The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe (Yale, 1994)