| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One The Coming of a Transitional Era | 第15-16页 |
| 1．1 The”environmental decade” | 第16-36页 |
| 1．2 The environmental policy in dilemma | 第17-27页 |
| 1．2．1 Disputes over the balance of costs and achievements | 第18-20页 |
| 1．2．2 The resistance from the environmental opposition | 第20-23页 |
| 1．2．3 Political gridlock of the environmental policymaking | 第23-27页 |
| 1．3 The coming of a transitional era | 第27-32页 |
| 1．4 Frameworks explaining the fluctuation of the environmental policymaking | 第32-36页 |
| Chapter Two The Waning Environmental Opposition | 第36-49页 |
| 2．1 Declining of the anti-environmental movement | 第36-42页 |
| 2．1．1 Losing ground as grassroots movement | 第37-41页 |
| 2．1．2 Frustration suffered in the government | 第41-42页 |
| 2．2 The greening of industry | 第42-49页 |
| 2．2．1 Reasons for industry to become green | 第43-45页 |
| 2．2．2 Evidence for the industrial greening | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Three A New Surge of the Environmental Movement | 第49-62页 |
| 3．1 The promise of the environmental groups | 第50-58页 |
| 3．1．1 The correlation between the national and grassrootsenvironm ental groups | 第51-55页 |
| 3．1．2 The broadening of the grassroots alliances | 第55-58页 |
| 3．2 The rising of the American Green Party | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Four Influence from the International Arena | 第62-78页 |
| 4．1 The global environmental governance | 第62-69页 |
| 4．1．1 World theme conferences | 第62-65页 |
| 4．1．2 International environmental organizations | 第65-67页 |
| 4．1．3 International environmental laws and policies | 第67-69页 |
| 4．2 Greening of the major international trade organizations | 第69-78页 |
| 4．2．1 The linkage between environment and international trade | 第69-73页 |
| 4．2．2 Greening of WTO | 第73-75页 |
| 4．2．3 Greening of NAFTA | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter Five Institutional Improvement | 第78-93页 |
| 5．1 The increasing role of states in the environmental policymaking | 第78-83页 |
| 5．1．1 Reasons for states to increase participation | 第78-80页 |
| 5．1．2 Evidence of states transformed role | 第80-83页 |
| 5．2 Improving the EPA | 第83-93页 |
| 5．2．1 The necessity for EPA to take reforms | 第83-86页 |
| 5．2．2 The problems EPA scheduled to resolve | 第86-93页 |
| Conclusion | 第93-98页 |
| Bibliography | 第98-103页 |
| Appendix | 第103-109页 |
