POLS 3356:U.S. Environmental Policy & Politics

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: POLS 1101.
Explores U.S. environmental policy and politics from the implicit early efforts (conservationist and preservationist) to the explicit policy that emerged out of postwar environmental movements and culminated in the 1970 with the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Emphasis is on the politics of making and implementing of environmental policy and on the effectiveness of environmental protection.