Michael E Kraft

Biographic Data

ID218186
NAMEMichael E Kraft
GIVEN NAMESMichael E
FAMILY NAMEKraft
SIGNATUREKRAFT M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Green Bay
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX7

  • Environmental Policy and Politics

    Michael E KraftBOOKEnvironmental Policy and Politics2021

    For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and natural resource problems in the United States. Now in its eighth edition, Michael E. Kraft has updated his definitive text to capture the changing nature of environmental problems as well as policy proposals made through 2020. Drawing from work within environmental science,…

  • Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

    Norman J Vig, Michael E Kraft et al.BOOKEnvironmental Policy2021

  • Environmental Policy and Politics

    Michael E KraftBOOKEnvironmental Policy and Politics2017

    Covering global threats such as climate change, population growth, and loss of biodiversity, as well as national, state, and local problems of environmental pollution, energy use, and natural resource use and conservation, Environmental Policy and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. policymaking processes, the legislative and administrative settings for policy decisions, the role of interest groups and public opinion in environment…

  • Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies

    Open AccessMichael E Kraft, Michael KraftARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2013Cited by: 1

  • Nuclear Power and the Challenge of High-Level Waste Disposal in the United States

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPolity2013Cited by: 4References: 15

    Any consideration of the future of nuclear power must tackle the question of how to dispose of the highly radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors. This article reviews the decades-long debate in the United States over nuclear-waste policy, including the Obama administration's decision to cancel work on the planned waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and the 2012 report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Th…

  • Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy

    Daniel A Mazmanian, Michael E KraftBOOKToward sustainable communities2009

    This analysis of U.S. environmental policy offers a conceptual framework that serves as a valuable roadmap to the array of laws, programs, and approaches developed over the last four decades. Combining case studies and theoretical discussion, the book views environmental policy in the context of three epochs: the rise of command-and-control federal regulation in the 1970s, the period of efficiency-based reform efforts that followed, and the more …

  • Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945–1970 by Karl Boyd Brooks

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2009

  • Sustainability and Water Quality: Policy Evolution in Wisconsin’s Fox-Wolf River Basin

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2006Cited by: 1References: 7

    This article examines efforts to improve water quality in the Fox-Wolf River basin in northeastern Wisconsin. It places the history of these efforts within the context of sustainability-based environmental policy, including reliance on broadly inclusive stakeholder involvement and collaborative decision making. Water quality in the area has improved significantly over time, but further improvement will require intensive actions focused on nonpoin…

  • Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2002Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy Get access Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy by George A. Gonzalez. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. 160 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $21.95. Michael E. Kraft Michael E. Kraft University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…

  • U.S. Environmental Policy and Politics: From the 1960s to the 1990s

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEJournal of Policy History2000Cited by: 10References: 19

    Environmental policy and politics in the United States have changed dramatically over the past three decades. What began in the late 1960s as an heroic effort by an incipient environmental movement to conserve dwindling natural resources and prevent further deterioration of the air, water, and land has been transformed over more than three decades into an extraordinarily complex, diverse, and often controversial array of environmental policies. T…

  • Policy Design and the Acceptability of Environmental Risks: Nuclear Waste Disposal in Canada and the United States

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2000Cited by: 6References: 10

    This article examines the controversial process of developing high‐level nuclear waste disposal policy in Canada, with some comparison to experience in the United States. It argues that a policy design perspective can assist in understanding the difficult social and political issues associated with waste disposal and the environmental and health risks that it poses. I examine several critical questions related to such an endeavor and link them to…

  • Clean air and the Adirondacks: Science, politics, and policy choice

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy1998Cited by: 2

  • Europe

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1998

  • Environmental Federalism at Decade's End: New Approaches and Strategies

    Michael E Kraft, Denise ScheberleARTICLEPublius The Journal of Federalism1998Cited by: 10

    This article examines several recent trends in environmental policy that may have important effects over the next decade on federal-state relations and on the nation's environmental quality. It focuses on the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to "reinvent" environmental regulation and to encourage community-based environmental protection as a more effective and acceptable approach to environmental policy. We consider the extent to which t…

  • Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting

    Jeryl L Mumpower, Riley E Dunlap et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1995

  • Environmental Justice and the Allocation Of Risk: The Case of Lead and Public Health

    Open AccessMichael E Kraft, Denise ScheberleARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1995Cited by: 13References: 3

    This paper examines conceptual and methodological issues in the analysis of environmental justice through use of the case of lead‐exposure health risks. Researchers face important obstacles in measuring variable risks among population subgroups. The case of lead exposure, however, illustrates the dramatic potential where adequate data exist for identifying and correcting significant inequities in risk exposure. Despite sharp reductions in the gen…

  • Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views on Repository Siting

    William M Babiuch, Riley E Dunlap et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1995

  • Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting

    Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Kristin Shrader‐frechette et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990. Gary C. Bryner

    Michael E KraftARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1994

  • Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens’ Views of Repository Siting

    Open AccessRiley E Dunlap, Michael E Kraft et al.BOOKPublic Reactions to Nuclear Waste1993

    Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my backyard. This timely volume offers a look past our present impasse into the nature and roots of public viewpoints on nuclear waste disposal. A much-needed supplement to the largely technical literatu…

  • Ecology and Political Theory: Broadening the Scope of Environmental Politics

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1992References: 3

  • Public And State Responses To High‐Level Nuclear Waste Disposal: Learning From Policy Failure

    Open AccessMichael E KraftARTICLEReview of Policy Research1991Cited by: 5References: 2

    Nuclear waste policy in the United States has jailed in large part because of public and state opposition to repository siting. However, that outcome was not inevitable. This paver argues that better policy design and greater attention to the crucial tasks of policy legitimation both by the U.S. Congress and by the Department of Energy might have significantly increased the chances for successful implementation. Even though the program now has a …

  • Citizen Participation and the Nimby Syndrome: Public Response to Radioactive Waste Disposal

    Michael E Kraft, Bruce B ClaryARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991Cited by: 31

  • Citizen Participation and the Nimby Syndrome: Public Response to Radioactive Waste Disposal

    Open AccessMichael E Kraft, Bruce B ClaryARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991Cited by: 12References: 18

  • Technology and Politics

    Open AccessLester B Lave, Michael E Kraft et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1990

    Technology and technological change are perhaps the most important forces shaping domestic politics, international relations, the economy, and our individual life styles. Vig describes three abstract views of the role of technology in society. According to the instrumentalism view,â it is the human beings who create and use technology that make it a force for good or evil: technology itself is considered morally neutral.â According to the social …