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The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy
A Climate for Expertise?
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics.
Climate Change and Social Movements
Civil Society and the Development of National Climate Change Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom. The author delves deep into the campaigns and illuminates the way policymakers think about and respond to social movements.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to jeopardise these efforts.
Transparency International's Global Corruption Report: Climate Change is the...
Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century
In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing separation between the rich and poor. The aim of this book is to examine the social constructions that have led to these breakdowns, and provide potential solutions that are based on a fundamental change in...
by Nathaniel O. Keohane, Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Markets and the Environment is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to a topic of central importance in understanding a wide range of environmental issues and policy approaches. It offers a clear overview of the fundamentals of environmental economics that will enable students and professionals...
The Energy Security-Climate Nexus
Institutional Change in the UK and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In the advent of important crises of both climate change and energy supply (in)security, questions are being asked about changes in energy governance. Caroline Kuzemko explains how and why change takes place and discusses the convoluted UK energy governance system that has emerged between 2000 and...
Growing a Sustainable City?
The Question of Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge...
Carbon Trading in China
Environmental Discourse and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development.
Experimentalist Governance in the European Union
Towards a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within-and increasingly beyond-its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy...
Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia
Locating the commonweal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant...
by Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims. To live up to them, decision and policy-making has to consider long-term development of society, economy, and nature. However, dealing with time and such long-term development...
The Roots of American Exceptionalism
Institutions, Culture, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration.
Climate Change Negotiations
A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral...
The Political Economy of Low Carbon Resilient Development
Planning and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions. Some governments are steered by international frameworks, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...