Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Environment: Values and Perceptions
2. NEPA: Enactment and Interpretation
3. Environmental Impact Assessment
4. Integrating Environmental Policy
5. International Environmental Policy
6. NEPA and the Global Environment
7. Future Directions: Beyond NEPA
Summation
Notes and References
Appendix: The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Index

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About the Author

Lynton Keith Caldwell is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, active in environmental and science policy research. He is noted as one of the principal architects of the National Environment Policy Act of 1969 and an "initiator" of the environmental impact statement. He has published more than 250 articles and monographs and twelve books, including In Defense of the Earth (Indiana University Press, 1972).