Introduction: an environmental historian amid the thickets of environmental politics --I. The big issues. The limits-to-growth issue: a historical perspective -- Value premises for planning and public policy: the historical context -- Public values and management response -- The role of urbanization in environmental history -- The future of environmental regulation -- II. Forest debates. The new environmental forest -- The new environmental west -- A challenge to the profession of forestry -- Foreword to Frederick Frankena, Strategies of expertise in technical controversies -- Human choice in the Great Lakes wildlands -- III. The politics of clean air. Clear air: from the 1970 Act to the 1977 Amendments -- Clean air: from 1977 to 1990 -- Emissions trading mythology -- The role of values in science and policy: the case of lead -- IV. Environmental politics since World War II. The structure of environmental politics since World War II -- Three decades of environment politics: the historical context -- A historical perspective on contemporary environmentalism -- Environmental political culture and environmental political development: an analysis of legislative voting, 1971-1989 -- The politics of environmental administration.