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Open for business :conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter e…
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Governing environmental flows :global challenges to social theory
Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284103
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, map
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Green giants? :environmental policies of the United States and the European U…
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of Ameri…
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- 9780262285544
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages)
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- American and Comparative Environmental Policy
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Greening the Americas :NAFTA's lessons for hemispheric trade
"Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Preface.Attention to environmental issues is vital if the full potential economic benefits of international trade are to be realized. Greening the Americas offers a number of analytically rigorous proposals to ensure that economic integrat…
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- 9780262271387
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : illustrations
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Consensus and global environment governance :deliberative democracy in nature…
In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliber…
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- 9780262327046
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) :map.
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European climate leadership in question :policies toward China and India
The EU has, for a long time, portrayed itself as an international leader on climate change. Previous studies have tended to focus on the characteristics of EU leadership, but have failed to examine the extent to which EU leadership generates 'followship'. This book analyzes EU climate policies towards China and India in order to provide a holistic assessment of EU climate leadership, and makes …
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Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327107
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- 1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)
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Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene
In an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. This book proposes 'earth system' governance as just such a new paradigm. It offers both analytical and normative perspectives. It provides detailed analysis of global environmental politics in terms of five dimensions of effective governance: agency, particularly agency beyond that of state act…
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- 9780262322928
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Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities - in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of develo…
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- 9780262338868
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Institutional dynamics :emergent patterns in international environmental gove…
An analysis of patterns of change in international environmental regimes, with five case studies illustrating the patterns identified. International environmental regimes—institutional arrangements that govern human-environmental interactions—are dynamic, changing continuously over time. Some regimes go from strength to strength, becoming more effective over the years, while others seem …
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- 9780262289825
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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