1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777398903321

Titolo

Climate change policy [[electronic resource] ] : a survey / / edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, John O. Niles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2002

ISBN

1-59726-842-9

1-4175-3949-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (580 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneiderStephen Henry

RosencranzArmin

NilesJohn O

Disciplina

363.738/745

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Government policy

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

""About Island Press""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Science and Impacts""; ""Ch 1: Understanding Climate Science""; ""Ch 2: Uncertainty and Climate Change Policy""; ""Ch 3: Regional Impact Assessments: A Case Study of California""; ""Part II: Economic Analysis""; ""Ch 4: International Approached to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions""; ""Ch 5: Designing Global Climate Regulation""; ""Ch 6: Carbon Abatement with Economic Growth: A National Strategy""; ""Part III: Policy Context""; ""Ch 7: U.S. Climate Change Policy""

""Ch 8: The Climate Policy Debate in the U.S. Congress""""Ch 9: Population and Climate Change Policy""; ""Ch 10: Global Climate Change: A Business Perspective""; ""Ch 11: Activities Implemented Jointly""; ""Part IV: Forests and Agriculture""; ""Ch 12: Climate Change and Agriculture: Mitigation Options and Potential""; ""Ch 13: Tropical Forests and Climate Change""; ""Part V: Development and Equity""; ""Ch 14: A Southern Perspective on Curbing Global Climate Change""; ""Ch 15: Equity, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Global Common Resources""; ""Part VI: Energy Choices""

""Ch 16: Renewable Energy Sources as a Response to Global Climate Concerns""""Ch 17: Fuel Cells, Carbon Sequestration, Infrastructure, and the Transition to a Hydrogen Economy""; ""Ch 18: Energy R&D and



Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities""; ""Ch 19: Business Capitalizing on Energy Transition Opportunities""; ""Ch 20: Earth Systems: Engineering and Management""; ""Appendix A: Climate Negotiation History""; ""Appendix B: ""Hot Air"" and ""Hot Air"" Policies""; ""Glossary""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Island Press Board of Directors 2002""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826418303321

Autore

Frederickson H. George

Titolo

Public management reform and innovation [[electronic resource] ] : research, theory, and application

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2015

ISBN

0-8173-8921-0

0-585-27410-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnstonJocelyn M. <1955->

Disciplina

351.73

Soggetti

Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management

Administrative agencies -- United States -- Reorganization

Civil service reform -- United States

Public administration -- United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction / H. George Frederickson; I. Theories and Concepts of Reform, Innovation, and Intervention in Public Management; 1. One Hundred Theories of Organizational Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Lawrence B. Mohr; 2. Theoretical Foundations of Policy Intervention / Janet A. Weiss ; 3. Do Goals Help Create Innovative Organizations? / Robert D. Behn; 4. Innovation by Legislative, Judicial, and Management Design: Three Arenas of Public Entrepreneurship / Nancy C. Roberts

II. Reengineering, Reform, and Innovation as Design Science: The Roles of Institutions and Political Contexts5. Where's the Institution? Neoinstitutionalism and Public Management / Karen G. Evans and Gary L. Wamsley ; 6. Assessing Public Management Reform with Internal Labor Market Theory: A Comparative Assessment of Change



Implementation / Lois R. Wise and Per Stengard; 7. Good Budgetary Decision Processes / Patrick D. Larkey and Erik A. Devereux; 8. Implementing Mission-Driven, Results-Oriented Budgeting / Fred Thompson and Carol K. Johansen

III. The Management of Innovation and Reform: Organizational and Bureaucratic Factors9. The Pain of Organizational Change: Managing Reinvention / Patricia W. Ingraham and Vernon Dale Jones; 10. Institutional Paradoxes: Why Welfare Workers Cannot Reform Welfare / Marcia K. Meyers and Nara Dillon; 11. Contracting In: Can Government Be a Business? / Eric Welch and Stuart Bretschneider; IV. Politics, Governance, Reform, and Innovation; 12. Interest Groups in the Rule-Making Process: Who Participates? Whose Voices Get Heard? / Marissa Martino Golden

13. Dialogue between Advocates and Executive Agencies: New Roles for Public Management / Linda Kaboolian14. Reinventing Government: Lessons from a State Capital / Frances S. Berry, Richard Chackerian, and Barton Wechsler; Conclusion / Jocelyn M. Johnston; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced, treatment of public management reform and innovation available.   The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors ask in this volume, is good politics necessarily good government?  Given the growing desire to reinvent government, there are hard questions to be asked: Is the private sector market model suitable and effective when applied to reforming public and governmental organizations? What are the major polit