Environmental Policy

Dr Phil Mundo, Professor Emeritus - Department of Political Science and International Relations, Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program, Drew University

5 Wednesday mornings, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. 

September 17, 24; October 1, 8 and 15, 2025

This course examines environmental problems and policies intended to address them. The course has two main parts: 1) U.S. environmental policy, and 2) Global environmental policy. Each part reviews main problems and what has been done to date to address them. This examination includes a brief review of the main technical aspects of the problem under consideration, a history of policies designed to deal with the problems, and an analysis of the extent to which they have been successful.

The course considers the main issues in environmental policy, including ● Air pollution ● Water pollution ● Toxic chemicals ● Species loss ● Land preservation ● Food production ● Climate change ● Energy policy ● Environmental justice 

After earning a PhD in political science at the University of California – Berkeley and spending several years working at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.,  Dr Phil Mundo joined the Drew faculty in 1986 where he taught courses on American Politics and Public policy and directed Drew’s Washington Semester Program and the London Semester Program.  Professor Mundo’s research interests include political participation in the U.S. along with trade and environmental policies. Just retired, Mundo gives public lectures and continues work in his research areas.

Selected publications include Business Influence in State-Level Environmental Policy” in M. Kraft and S. Kamieniecki (ed.) Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (MIT Press, 2007) [with B. Rabe]. National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy (Georgetown University Press, 1999). Interest Groups: Cases and Characteristics (Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1992).