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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464541403321

Autore

Hess David J

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-62980-1

0-262-30590-9

9786613942258

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Disciplina

363.7023

Soggetti

Environmentalists - Vocational guidance - United States

Environmental policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.