Texts
Layzer, Judith A. The Environmental Case. Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2002.
Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn. Environmental Politics. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.
Required Readings
Anderson, Terry L., and Donald T. Leal. "Visions of the Environment and Rethinking the Way We Think." In Debating the Earth. Edited by John S. Dryzek and David Schlosberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 207-223.
Arrow, Kenneth, et al. "Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment." In Debating the Earth, pp. 35- 40.
Arsenic Rule Benefits Analysis: An SAB Review.
Bartlett, Robert V. "Rationality and the Logic of the National Environmental Policy Act." In Debating the Earth, pp. 85-95.
Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja, and Jim Skea. "Forests and Power: German Precaution." Chap. 10 in Acid Poitics: Environmental and Energy Policies in Britain and Germany. London: Belhaven Press, 1991, pp. 185-204.
Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja, and Jim Skea. "Government, Politics and Environmental Policy-making." Chap. 6 in Acid Poitics, pp. 94-115.
Bullard, Robert D. "Anatomy of Environmental Racism." In Debating the Earth, pp. 471-492.
Congressional Research Service. 
IB90122 - Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards (PDF). 2003.
Dodge, Jim. "Living By Life: Some Bioregional Theory and Practice." In Debating the Earth, pp. 365-373.
Downs, Anthony. "Up and Down with Ecology: The Issue-Attention Cycle." Public Interest 28 (1972): 38-50. (PDF)
Easterbrook, Gregg. "The Ecorealist Manifesto." In Debating the Earth, pp. 66-69.
Eckersley, Robyn. "Ecocentrism explained and Defended." In Debating the Earth, pp. 374-393.
Ehrlich, Paul, and Anne Ehrlich. "Wise Use and Anti-Environmental Science." In Debating the Earth, pp. 70-82.
Farrow, Scott, and Michael Toman. "Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Improve Environmental Regulations." Environment 41, 2 (1999): 12-15, 33-37. Responses to Farrow and Toman by George Eads, Environment 41, 4 (1999): 4; Lester Lave, Environment 41, 4 (1999): 4; Farrow, and Toman, Environment 41, 4 (1999): 45.
Federal District Court Case: United States v Holland (No. 73-623 M.D. Fla. March 27, 1974.)
First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. "Principles of Environmental Justice." In Debating the Earth, pp.469-470.
Foreman, Dave. "Putting the Earth First." In Debating the Earth, pp. 358-364.
Friedman, David. "The Environmental Racism Hoax." The American Enterprise 9, 6 (November/December, 1998): 75-78.
Goodin, Robert E. "Selling Environmental Indulgences." In Debating the Earth, pp. 237-254.
Greve, Michael. "Private Enforcement, Private Rewards: How Environmental Citizen Suits Became an Entitlement Program" (1992). Chap. 6 in Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards. Edited by Michael Greve and Fred Smith. New York: Praeger, 1992, pp. 105-127.
Grunwald, Michael. "How Corps Turned Doubt Into a Lock." Washington Post (February 13, 2000): A1.
Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." In Debating the Earth, pp. 23-34.
Krauss, Celene. "Women of Color on the Front Line." In Debating the Earth, pp. 493-503.
Legislation Link: Clean Air Act.
Legislation Link: Clean Water Act.
Legislation Link: Endangered Species Act.
Mann, Charles, and Mark Plummer. "The Awful Beast is Back." In Noah's Choice. New York: Knopf, 1995, pp. 147-175.
McCormick, John. "Acid Politics." Chap. 4 in Acid Earth. London: Earthscan Publications, 1998, pp. 55-76.
McCormick, John. "Britain." Chap. 5 in Acid Earth. London: Earthscan Publications, 1998, pp. 80-95.
Meadows, Donella, et al. "The Nature of Exponential Growth." In Debating the Earth, pp. 9-22.
Mitchell, William C., and Randy T. Simmons. "Political Pursuit of Private Gain: Environmental Goods." In Debating the Earth, pp. 224-236.
Muir, John. "Hetch Hetchy Valley." (1916). In Sources: Notable Selections in Environmental Studies. 2nd ed. Edited by Theodore D. Goldfarb. Guilford, Ct.: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 2000, pp. 3-8.
Naess, Arne. "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement." In Debating the Earth, pp. 353-357.
Pinchot, Gifford. "Principles of Conservation" (1910). In Sources: Notable Selections in Environmental Studies, pp. 9-12.
Putnam, Susan W., and Jonathan Baert Wiener. "Seeking Safe Drinking Water." Chap. 7 in Risk vs. Risk. Edited by John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 124-148.
Redefining Progress Sustainability Program.
http://rprogress.org/sustainable_economics/about_sustainable_economics.htm
Explore the concept of "ecological footprints" and calculate your own.
Sabel, Charles, et al. http://new.bostonreview.net/BR24.5/contents.html .
Schmandt, Jurgen. "Regulation and Science." Science, Technology, and Human Values 9, 1 (Winter 1984): 23-39.
Sierra Club. Sprawl: The Dark Side of the American Dream. 1998.
Simon, Julian L., and Herman Kahn. "Introduction to the Resourceful Earth." In Debating the Earth, pp. 43-65.
Supreme Court Case: Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County, Petitioner v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, et al. (No. 99-1178, January 9, 2001.) (PDF)
Supreme Court Case: TVA v. Hill. (No. 76-1701, June 15, 1978.)
Supreme Court Case: United States v Riverside Bayview Homes. (No. 84-703, December 4, 1985.)
Supreme Court Case: Babbit vs. Sweethome. (94-859, June 29, 1995.)
Supreme Court Case: Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, et al. Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island (No.99-2047, June 28, 2001.) (PDF)
Supreme Court Case: Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc., et al., v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. (No. 00-1167) (PDF)
Whittington, Dale, and W. Norton Grubb. "Economic Analysis in Regulatory Decisions." Science, Technology, and Human Values 9, 1 (Winter 1984): 63-71.
Williams, Ted. "Who can Save a Wetland?" Audubon (September-October 1999): 60-68.
Wilson, E. O. "The Current State of Biological Diversity" (1988). In Sources: Notable Selections in Environmental Studies, pp. 219-226.
Suggested Readings
Andrews, Richard N. L. "Risk-Based Decision-Making." In Environmental Policy. Edited by Michael Kraft and Norman Vig. Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2000, pp. 210-231.
Baden, John, and Douglass Noonan. Managing the Commons. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1998.
This is an interesting critique of the "Tragedy of the Commons" thesis and suggested free-market solutions.
Brecher, Jeremy, and Tim Costello. "The Lilliput Strategy." In Debating the Earth. Edited by John S. Dryzek and David Schlosberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 534-538.
Daly, Herman E. "Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem." In Debating the Earth, pp. 285-289.
Dobson, Andrew. "Strategies for Green Change." In Debating the Earth, pp. 539-555.
Easterbrook, Gregg. A Moment on Earth. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Freeman, A. Myrick, III. "Economics, Incentives, and Environmental Regulation." In Environmental Policy, pp. 190-209.
Freeman, A. Myrick, III. "Water Pollution Policy." In Public Policies for Environmental Protection. Edited by Paul R. Portney. Washington D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1990, pp. 97-150.
Gore, Al. "A Global Marshall Plan." In Debating the Earth, pp. 319-326.
Greve, Michael, and Fred Smith. Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards. New York: Praeger, 1992, Chap. 2, 4 and 5.
Harrison, Kathyrn. "Talking with the Donkey: Cooperative Approaches to Environmental Protection." Journal of Industrial Ecology 2, 3 (1999): 51-72./p>
Kellert, Stephen. The Value of Life. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1996, Chap. 2 and 3, pp. 9-63.
Knopman, Debra S., Megan M. Susman, and Marc K. Landy. "Civic Environmentalism." Environment 41, 10 (1999): 25-32.
Kraft, Michael E. "Environmental Policy in Congress: From Consensus to Gridlock." In Environmental Policy, pp. 121-144.
Kraft, Michael E., and Norman J. Vig. "Environmental Policy from the 1970s to 2000." In Environmental Policy, pp. 1-31.
Lafferty, William M. "The Politics of Sustainable Development." In Debating the Earth, pp. 265-284.
Layzer, Judith A. "The New England Groundfish Crisis." In The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2002.
Lee, Kai N. "The Columbia River Basin: Experimenting with Sustainability." In Debating the Earth, pp. 96-109.
Leopold, Aldo. "Thinking Like A Mountain" (1948). In Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
McSpadden, Lettie. "Environmental Policy and the Courts." In Environmental Policy, pp. 145-165.
Ophuls, William P., and A. Stephen Boyan, Jr. "The American Political Economy." In Debating the Earth, pp. 187-203.
Ostrom, Elenor. Governing the Commons. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
A strong critique of Hardin's thesis.
Paehlke, Robert. "Environmental Values for a Sustainable Society." In Debating the Earth, pp. 147-161.
Population Action International. People in Balance. 2000.
An interesting summary of the population-environment problem looking at water, forests, agriculture and pollution. Useful data and graphics. [Click the title to jump to the web page for the full text.]
Portney, Paul R. "The Evolution of Federal Regulation." In Public Policies for Environmental Protection. Edited by Paul R. Portney. Washington D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1990, pp. 7-26.
Rinquist, Evan J. "Environmental Justice: Normative Concerns and Empirical Evidence." In Environmental Policy, pp. 210-231.
Sagoff, Mark. "The Allocation and Distribution of Resources." In Debating the Earth, pp. 131-146.
Schleicher, David. "How Does Science Matter?" In But is It True? Edited by Aaron Wildavsky. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, Chap. 7, pp. 223-246.
Skolnikoff, Eugene B. "The Role of Science in Policy." Environment 41, 5 (1999): 17-20, 42-45.
Stoel, Thomas B., Jr. "Reining in Urban Sprawl." Environment 41, 4 (1999): 6-11, 29-33.
Torgerson, Douglas. "Limits of the Administrative Mind." In Debating the Earth, pp. 110-128.
Vig, Norman J. "Presidential Leadership and the Environment: From Reagan to Clinton." In Environmental Policy, pp. 98-120.
Wapner, Paul. "Politics Beyond the State." In Debating the Earth, pp. 507-508.
Weber, Edward. "Assuring Reductions in Acid Rain: The Case of Government Imposed Markets." In Pluralism by the Rules. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998, pp. 148-183.
World Commission. "From One Earth to One World." In Debating the Earth, pp. 257-264.