Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration

J. Michael Martinez teaches political science at Kennesaw State University and works as an environmental affairs representative for a manufacturing company.

• Introduction and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Concepts Chapter 1: Defining and Understanding SustainabilityChapter 2: The “Dismal Science” of EconomicsChapter 3: The Ethics of SustainabilityPart II: Processes and InstitutionsChapter 4: The Rise of the American Administrative StateChapter 5: The Development of Federal Environmental LawPart III: Modern American EnvironmentalismChapter 6: A Brief History of the Modern Environmental MovementChapter 7: Interest Groups and the Environmental LobbyPart IV: ConclusionChapter 8: Sustainability and American Public Administration: Where Do We Go From Here?References

This book illustrates the critical roles played, challenges faced, and choices made by public managers in the development of environmental policy in the United States, and that will confront them if sustainability is to become a central animating principle of governance in the United States. It is broad in intellectual scope, balanced in perspective, and written in accessible prose. Readers new to the fields of public administration or environmental governance will gain a basic a sense for major issues and actors in each, how the two relate to each other, and how both fit into historical debates over the proper role of the government in a democratic republic. They will also appreciate that linking the two to advance sustainability will not be a task for the timid, impatient, or strategically-challenged in our Madisonian system.