Teachers’ Topic Guides:Environmental Policy and Politics

This guide is designed for A-level and Scottish Higher teachers searching for an up-to-date overview of events and scholarship (both classic and contemporary) in the field of UK environmental politics and policy. The study of environmental policy in the UK covers a broad range of actors, issues and dynamics. We present here three guiding questions which capture the core features and major changes in environmental politics and policy in the UK. The three guiding questions are: 1. What are the key features of ‘environmental policy’? 2. Who are the main actors? 3. Where is UK environmental policy made?