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Titans Of The Climate - Explaining Policy Process In The United States And China

by Kelly Sims Gallagher e Xiaowei Xuan

74,20€ + 10% CARD

 How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
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Can We Price Carbon?

by Barry G. Rabe

238,50€ + 10% CARD

 A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
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Conceptual Innovation In Environmental Policy

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from "environment" to "sustainable consumption."
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American Environmental Policy - Beyond Gridlock

by Christopher Mcgrory Klyza e David J. Sousa

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 An updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock. The "golden era" of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act) passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by presidents of both parties. But since then partisanship, the dramatic movement of Republicans to the right, and political brinksmanship have led to legislative gridlock on environmental issues. In this book, Christopher Klyza and David Sousa argue that the longstanding legislative stalemate at the national level has forced environmental policymaking onto other pathways.Klyza and Sousa identify and analyze five alternative policy paths, which they illustrate with case studies from 1990 to the present: "appropriations politics" in Congress; executive authority; the role of the courts; "next-generation" collaborative experiments; and policymaking at the state and local levels. This updated edition features a new chapter discussing environmental policy developments from 2006 to 2012, including intensifying partisanship on the environment, the failure of Congress to pass climate legislation, the ramifications of Massachusetts v. EPA, and other Obama administration executive actions (some of which have reversed Bush administration executive actions). Yet, they argue, despite legislative gridlock, the legacy of 1960s and 1970s policies has created an enduring "green state" rooted in statutes, bureaucratic routines, and public expectations.
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Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously - Economic Development, The Environment, And Quality Of Life In American Cities

by Kent E. Portney

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in American cities, updated with the latest research and additional case studies. Today most major cities have undertaken some form of sustainability initiative. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons across cities, or theoretically grounded considerations of what works and what does not, and why. In Taking Sustainable CitiesSeriously, Kent Portney addresses this gap, offering a comprehensive overview and analysis of sustainability programs and policies in American cities. After discussing the conceptual underpinnings of sustainability, he examines the local aspects of sustainability; considers the measurement of sustainability and offers an index of "serious" sustainability for the fifty-five largest cities in the country; examines the relationship between sustainability and economic growth; and discusses issues of governance, equity, and implementation. He also offers extensive case studies, with separate chapters on large, medium-size, and small cities, and provides an empirically grounded analysis of why some large cities are more ambitious than others in their sustainability efforts.This second edition has been updated throughout, with new material that draws on the latest research. It also offers numerous additional case studies, a new chapter on management and implementation issues, and a greatly expanded comparative analysis of big-city sustainability initiatives.Portney shows how cities use the broad rubric of sustainability to achieve particular political ends, and he dispels the notion that only cities that are politically liberal are interested in sustainability. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously draws a roadmap for effective sustainability initiatives.
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Open For Business - Conservatives'' Opposition To Environmental Regulation

by Judith A. Layzer

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.
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Coming Clean - Information Disclosure And Environmental Performance

by Mark Stephan, Michael E. Kraft e Troy D. Abel

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 An investigation into the policy effects of requiring firms to disclose information about their environmental performance.
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Global Commons, Domestic Decisions - The Comparative Politics Of Climate Change

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Comparative case studies and analyses of the influence of domestic politics on countries' climate change policies and Kyoto ratification decisions.
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Knowledge And Environmental Policy - Re-Imagining The Boundaries Of Science And Politics

by Robert Healy, Toddi Steelman e William Ascher

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of knowledge into making environmental policy.
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Water, Place, And Equity

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 An agument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.
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Bringing Society Back In - Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, And Sustainable Communities

by Edward P. Weber

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the United States have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problems affecting their environment, economy, and communities. Ad hoc and voluntary groups of environmentalists, developers, businesspeople, federal and state resource managers, farmers, loggers, local citizens, and those representing recreation interests use deliberation and consensus to enhance public policy performance. Instead of focusing on specific issues such as air pollution, GREM emphasizes the integrated management of entire watersheds and ecosystems. But what happens to democratic accountability in these collaborative efforts? Despite concerns that they might result in special interest government, the acceleration of environmental degradation, and an end-run around national environmental protection laws, this book suggests otherwise.Bringing Society Back In establishes a theoretical framework for exploring issues of policy performance and democratic accountability raised by GREM. Through three case studies—the Applegate Partnership in Oregon, the Henry''s Fork Watershed Council in Idaho, and the Willapa Alliance in Washington state—it explores the mechanisms used to determine how accountability works. The book finds that by combining traditional and formal governance structures with informal institutions, GREM can be accountable to individuals, communities, surrounding regions, and the nation. The book also identifies conditions under which GREM is most likely to achieve democratic accountability. In addition, it investigates the connection between accountability and policy performance. The evidence suggests that GREM can produce environmental policy outcomes that are supportive not only of the environment and economy, but also of environmental sustainability.
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Natural Experiments - Ecosystem-Based Management And The Environment

by Judith A. Layzer

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment.
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Business And Environmental Policy - Corporate Interests In The American Political System

164,30€ + 10% CARD

 Scholars and policy experts examine the extent of business influence on environmental policy and the effect of corporate lobbying on public opinion, congressional action, agency policy making, court intervention, and state and local government.
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Domestic Sources Of International Environmental Policy - Industry, Environmentalists, And U.S. Power

by Elizabeth R. Desombre

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry—previously at odds with each other—to work together to shape international environmental policy. For environmentalists, international regulation offers greater protection of a resource. For industry, internationalization prevents unregulated foreign industries from operating at a competitive advantage. Domestic forces acting together often push for the threat or imposition of economic restrictions on countries resisting regulation. DeSombre examines this dynamic primarily from the perspective of United States environmental policy. Looking at major regulations on endangered species, air pollution, and fisheries conservation, she determines which ones the United States has attempted to internationalize and how successful the attempts have been. She underlines the importance of regulated industries in the creation of international environmental policy and presents evidence that power and threat play a significant role in the adoption of international regulations, despite the perception of international environmental politics as an arena of friendly interaction over mutual interests. She also discusses the origins of international cooperation, the regulatory effects of free trade, the usefulness of economic sanctions, and the interaction between domestic and international politics. Thus the book has theoretical implications for the fields of environmental politics and policy, international diplomacy, and international political economy.
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Governing The Tap - Special District Governance And The New Local Politics Of Water

by Megan Mullin

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.
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Climate Change - What It Means For Us, Our Children, And Our Grandchildren

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.
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Power Of Narrative In Environmental Networks

by Helen Ingram, Mrill Ingram e Raul Lejano

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Theory and case studies demonstrate the analytic potential of mutually constitutive "narrative networks" in environmental governance.
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Environmental Leadership In Developing Countries - Transnational Relations And Biodiversity Policy In Costa Rica And Bolivia

by Paul F. Steinberg

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 In the absence of world government, effective national policy is essential to the success of international environmental initiatives. Yet research on global environmental cooperation has proceeded without models of policy change in developing countries, where most of the world''s people, land, and species are found. In this book Paul Steinberg provides a theoretical framework to explain the domestic responses of developing countries to global environmental concerns. Drawing on extensive field research, he traces the evolution of public policies to protect biological diversity in Costa Rica and Bolivia over the past four decades, to understand how these countries emerged as leaders in tropical conservation and how international institutions might support similar outcomes in other countries.Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries explodes the myth that developing countries are too preoccupied with short-term economic growth and material survival to devote attention to global environmental concerns. Instead it offers a nuanced account of complex, decades-long efforts to create effective institutions, and analyzes the relative roles of foreign and domestic actors in this process.
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Changing Climates In North American Politics - Institutions, Policymaking, And Multilevel Governance

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 Analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state, and local levels, involving public, private, and civic actors.
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Reclaiming The Atmospheric Commons - The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative And A New Model Of Emissions Trading

by Leigh Raymond

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.
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The Resistance Dilemma - Place-Based Movements And The Climate Crisis

by George Hoberg

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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Comparative Environmental Politics - Theory, Practice, And Prospects

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To Know Is To Compare - Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, And Platforms

by Mora Matassi e Pablo J. Boczkowski

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The Space Between Look And Read - Designing Complementary Meaning

by Susan M. Hagan

48,93€

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