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Living in denial: Climate change, emotions, and everyday life
Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In this book sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295772
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- 1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) :illustrations
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The end of energy: The unmaking of America's environment, security, and indep…
"Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our power p…
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- 9780262295611
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- 1 online resource (x, 369 pages) :illustrations
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Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis
American monetary policy is formulated by the Federal Reserve and overseen by Congress. Both policy making and oversight are deliberative processes, although the effect of this deliberation has been difficult to quantify. In this book, Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey provides a systematic examination of deliberation on monetary policy from 1976 to 2008 by the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (F…
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- 9780262314725
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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…
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 t…
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- 9780262271608
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages).
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Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States
Experts discuss fiscal reforms intended to address the U.S. debt problem, examining entitlements, federal budgetary processes, and individual and corporate income taxes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321914
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 411 pages) :illustrations
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The economic dynamics of environmental law
This text shows in detail how the concept of economic dynamics can reshape thinking about environmental law and policy. It argues that environmental policymaking in the US has been poorly served by the view of the relationship between environmental regulation and economy, technology and business.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272001
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- 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
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Good green jobs in a global economy :making and keeping new industries in the…
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 in…
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- 9780262305907
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- 1 online resource (x, 298 pages).
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Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329972
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- 1 online resource (468 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change
How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change -- and what threatens their leadership.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330152
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages).
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Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
"Foreword by Oran R. Young"--Cover.An argument that secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- are political actors in their own right.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325356
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- 1 online resource (xx, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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