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International environmental policy : interests and the failure of the Kyoto process / Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Aynsley Kellow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--International cooperation.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental risk assessment--International cooperation.
- Environmental risk assessment.
- Greenhouse gases--Government policy--International cooperation.
- Greenhouse gases.
- Air--Pollution--Government policy--International cooperation.
- Air.
- Global warming--Economic aspects.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Kyoto protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol had done. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international response to climate change, Kyoto has provided significantly more problematic. ""International Environmental Policy"" considers why this is the case. The authors contend that such arguments on this occasion proved inadequate to the task, not just because the core issues of the Kyoto process were subje
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The international environmental policy process: increasing complexity and implementation failure; 3 Energy interests, opportunities and uneven burden-sharing; 4 The Kyoto process; 5 The failure of principled discourse; 6 Institutionalizing scientific advice: designing consensus as a policy driver?; 7 The suppression of scientific controversy; 8 Baptists, bootleggers and the Kyoto process; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-19888-6
- 9786613198884
- 1-84376-696-5
- OCLC:
- 54530717
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