This course offers a broad introduction to environmental politics as a policy-making process and to the content of the laws and policies that this process has produced, with the United States as the priciplal focus but with other countries and the international system serving as points of comparison. This course places special emphasis on how structural and functional features of the political systems in which environmental plicies are made lead to predictable policy outcomes, and on principles and concepts in environmental law and policy that transcend particular environmental issues.