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Changing climates in North American politics : institutions, policymaking, and multilevel governance / edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American and comparative environmental policy.
- American and comparative environmental policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Political aspects--North America.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--North America.
- Environmental policy--Political aspects--North America.
- Environmental policy.
- Global warming--Political aspects--North America.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Changing Climates and Institution Building across the Continent; I Between Kyoto and Washington; 2 Climate Change Politics in Mexico; 3 Looking for Leadership: Canada and Climate Change Policy; II States and Cities Out Front; 4 Second-Generation Climate Policies in the States: Proliferation, Diffusion, and Regionalization; 5 Field Notes on the Political Economy of California Climate Policy; 6 Climate Leadership in Northeast North America; 7 Local Government Response to Climate Change: Our Last, Best Hope?; III Continental Politics
- 8 NAFTA as a Forum for CO2 Permit Trading?9 Renewable Electricity Politics across Borders; 10 Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking; IV Climate Action among Firms, Campuses, and Individuals; 11 Business Strategies and Climate Change; 12 Insurance and Reinsurance in a Changing Climate; 13 Campus Climate Action; 14 Communicating Climate Change and Motivating Civic Action: Renewing, Activating, and Building Democracies; Conclusion; 15 North American Climate Governance: Policymaking and Institutions in the Multilevel Greenhouse
- About the ContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612694752
- 9781282694750
- 1282694758
- 9780262259170
- 0262259176
- OCLC:
- 460168112
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612694752
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