Ian Bailey: 3 books
Climate Clever
How Governments Can Tackle Climate Change (and Still Win Elections)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? We know that there are ways of doing this that are both practical and affordable. It is politics that is the problem. Stringent climate policies may lead companies to...
New Environmental Policy Instruments in the European Union
Politics, Economics, and the Implementation of the Packaging Waste Directive
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The use of legislation by EU governments to define environmental standards for industry has been criticised for its poor track record in arresting the decline in the quality of Europe's environment. Environmental economists in particular have proposed that legislation should be supplemented or replaced...
Feeling the Heat
The Politics of Climate Policy in Rapidly Industrializing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do to strengthen climate policies without incurring serious political damage.