"环境政治及政策"此门课探讨的是在美国公共政策中,环境政策的制定运作过程。

"Environmental Politics & Policy" explores the workings of environmental policymaking in the United States.

• 环境政策所面对的重大议题是什么?
  
  What are the big issues facing environmental policy?
• 今日的解决相关环境议题的环境政策是如何产生?
  
  How did we end up with the policies we have today?
• 为什么环境政策的制定都是因为一个特定的环保或环境危机的出现?( 换言之,为何有水患,我们才会想去治水)
  
  Why does it take a crisis to move environmental policy forward?
• 为什么相关的政治因素－例如经济利益、社经与政治的价值观、官僚作风、意识形态、选举等等－似乎总是凌越科学及工程的合理判断，因而决定了一个环境政策的制定与其政策下的结果？
  
  Why do political factors - economic interests, social and political values, bureaucratic styles, ideologies, elections, etc. - always seem to overwhelm sound scientific and engineering judgment in determining policy outcomes?

个案研究范围由毒性废弃物污染清除到濒临绝种物种保护，深入探讨科学与政治在地方、州政府及联邦层级的利益冲突。

Case studies ranging from cleaning up toxic waste pollution to endangered species protection probe the clashes between science and politics at local, state, and federal levels.