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Reports on a study which conceptualizes and operationalizes state high-technology capacity and demonstrates its potential usefulness in comparative state studies in the U.S. Identification and recording of the amount of high-technology resources that are available in each state and that can be employed in public policy; Five dimensions of the concept; Ranking of the states along these dimensions; Relationships between the five components of high-technology capacity and several state energy and environmental policies.

The article presents a discussion on environmental regulation and energy production. Not only are the goals of environmental protection and energy independence new political goals, they also are increasingly conflicting goals. The U.S. Congress has played a major role in formulating energy and environmental policy. Therefore. the article presents an analyzed roll call voting which was conducted in 1975 and 1979 in order to look at the politics of policy development and to determine if the traditional model of congressional voting still explains voting in these policy areas.

The article lists several books on energy and environmental policy, received for publication in the May 01, 1983 issue of the "Blackwell" journal. Energy and environmental policy are two rapidly developing inter-related subfields within the broad area of natural resource policy which are of considerable contemporary interest. Rapid change in these policies during the late 1970s several times rendered course coverage, materials and texts obsolete less than a year after preparation or publication. References in this bibliography were selected to reflect both historical context and recent developments, through scholarly and a few popular publications of enduring relevance and classroom utility.