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Politics and the Environment Robert J. Brulle Drexel University Forthcoming in Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins (eds), The Handbook of Politics : State and Civil Society in Global Perspective Springer Publishers, New York, NY. _____. For nearly 150 years, Environmental concerns have been part of the political agenda. As early as 1864, the Congress debated the proper use of national lands, and, motivated by press accounts of the logging of Giant Sequoia trees, decided to protect Yosemite Valley for aesthetic reasons (Brulle 2000). Since then, as industrialization and Environmental impacts have risen in tandem, Environmental Politics has expanded its range over an increasingly wide spectrum of political action, ranging from local level land use decisions to global controls over CO2 emissions. Thus the study of Environmental Politics encompasses a range of issues across virtually all political arenas. As the range of Environmental Politics has expanded, so too has the scholarship on this topic.

Thus environmental politics is carried out in distinct communities, each focused on a particular aspect of environmental concerns. Thus this essay begins with a discussion of the multiple frames that define environmentalism. Secondly, there are several intellectual frameworks that define the causes and cures to environmental problems.

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