Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

The Shale Renaissance

How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

By Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, A.J. Good

Examines the Administrative Challenges and Politics Associated with Fracking in Pennsylvania

Bureaucrats, Politics And the Environment

By Richard W. Waterman, Amelia A. Rouse, Robert Wright

An informative case study of how bureaucrats establish and enforce policy and law. By focusing on personnel from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment puts a face on bureaucracy and provides an explanation for its actions.

Nature and the Iron Curtain

Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990

Edited By Astrid Kirchhof, J. R. McNeill

A Political and Comparative History of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the Communist and Capitalist Worlds During the Cold War Years