Good green jobs in a global economy : making and keeping new industries in the United States / David J. Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, David J.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalists--Vocational guidance--United States.

Environmentalists.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After describing federal green energy initiatives in the first two years of the Obama administration, Hess turns his attention to the state and local levels, examining demand-side and supply-side support for green industry and local small business. He analyzes the successes and failures of green coalitions and the partisan patterns of support for green energy reform. This new piecemeal green industrial policy, Hess argues, signals a fundamental challenge to anti-interventionist beliefs about the relationship between the government and the economy."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

Energy, manufacturing, and the changing global economy

Green jobs and the green energy transition

Green industrial policy and the 111th Congress

State governments and the greening of import substitution

The greening of regional industrial clusters

Localist alternatives to the mainstream transition

Green transition coalitions and geographical unevenness

After 2010: continued unevenness in the green transition

Conclusion

Appendix: state government votes for green energy laws.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-30498-8

1-283-62980-1

0-262-30590-9

9786613942258

OCLC:

811963894