| Overview of the challenges of making and implementing environmental policy |
| Environmental governance vs. government: introduction to actors and institutions |
| Changing capacity of state and local governments |
| Changing policies: command and control vs. markets vs. voluntary vs. collaborative
approaches |
| Interplay between science, values, and public policy |
| Are environmental problems fundamentally different than other policy problems |
| Progress has been made, much remains to be done, but does society want to pay for it? |