The Project on Environmental Politics
& Policy
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology is a research and teaching effort that views
environmental policy- making as fundamentally a political process in which
the trading off
political, economic, and social interests and values is as important as good technical problem- solving.
"Politics" is the essence of environmental
policy-making, not some defect that gets in the way of "sound
science".
Accordingly, the Project’s
goal is to advance our understanding of environmental policy- making as a political process
and thereby improve our capacity to design responsive and effective technical
solutions to pressing environmental needs.
