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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Nuclear Hydrogen Research and Development Plan from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, describes ongoing plans for demonstrating the production of clean hydrogen fuel from nuclear energy. Hydrogen is abundant in nature but occurs primarily in stable compounds that require...
Branching Out, Digging In
Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. Branching Out, Digging In examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge...
Deliberating Environmental Policy in India
Participation and the Role of Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
As one of the world’s largest and most bio-diverse countries, India’s approach to environmental policy will be very significant in tackling global environmental challenges. This book explores the transformations that have taken place in the making of environmental policy in India since the economic...
Titans of the Climate
Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
The United States and China together account for a disproportionate 45 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced complementary efforts to...
Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy
How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Even by the scientists most closely associated with it, geoengineering – the deliberate intervention in the climate at global scale to mitigate the effects of climate change – is perceived to be risky. For all its potential benefits, there are robust differences of opinion over the wisdom of such...
Rescuing EU Emissions Trading
The Climate Policy Flagship
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book draws upon a meticulous study of background documents and a string of fresh interviews to tell the fascinating story of how the EU’s climate flagship was significantly improved. The EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) covers almost half of its greenhouse gas emissions and has been hailed...
China as a Global Clean Energy Champion
Lifting the Veil
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This book assesses China’s reputation as a global clean energy champion, and applies institutional and public policy theories to explain how the country has achieved so much and why there continue to be so many unintended consequences and constraints to progress. It considers the extent to which...
Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects
Dealing with uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The governance and evaluation of ‘megaprojects’ – that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations – is receiving increased attention. However, megaproject evaluation...
by Jonathan Liljeblad
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Prevailing U.S. government philosophy espouses the devolution of authority from federal to local levels. This trend opens the possibility of greater local involvement in policy implementation, and provides international policymakers the opportunity to improve global policies by adding the efforts...
Obama’s welfare legacy
An assessment of US anti-poverty policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The election of Barack Obama in the midst of the 2008 economic downturn brought hope to millions and presented an opportunity for expanding socio-economic rights. But the Obama administration was consistently constrained by the challenges of divided government, and the now threatened Affordable Care...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
American political development (APD) is a core subfield in American political science, and focuses on political and policy history. For a variety of reasons, most of the focus in the twentieth century APD has been on liberal policymaking. Yet since the 1970s, conservatives have gradually assumed control...
Vanuatu Economic Report 2009
Accelerating Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Over the last several years, Vanuatu has become one of the fastest growing economies in the Pacific region driven primarily by tourism, construction, and aid inflows. The achievement of strong economic growth has also occurred on the back of improved economic policy, effective fiscal management, and...