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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827450503321

Titolo

Changing climates in North American politics : institutions, policymaking, and multilevel governance / / edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-69475-8

9786612694752

0-262-25917-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

American and comparative environmental policy

Altri autori (Persone)

SelinHenrik <1971->

VanDeveerStacy D

Disciplina

363.738/7456097

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Political aspects - North America

Climatic changes - Government policy - North America

Environmental policy - Political aspects - North America

Global warming - Political aspects - North America

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

Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Changing Climates and Institution Building across the Continent; I Between Kyoto and Washington; 2 Climate Change Politics in Mexico; 3 Looking for Leadership: Canada and Climate Change Policy; II States and Cities Out Front; 4 Second-Generation Climate Policies in the States: Proliferation, Diffusion, and Regionalization; 5 Field Notes on the Political Economy of California Climate Policy; 6 Climate Leadership in Northeast North America; 7 Local Government Response to Climate Change: Our Last, Best Hope?; III Continental Politics

8  NAFTA as a Forum for CO2 Permit Trading?9 Renewable Electricity Politics across Borders; 10 Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking; IV Climate Action among Firms, Campuses, and Individuals; 11 Business Strategies and Climate Change; 12 Insurance and Reinsurance in a Changing Climate; 13 Campus Climate Action; 14 Communicating Climate Change and Motivating Civic Action: Renewing, Activating, and



Building Democracies; Conclusion; 15 North American Climate Governance: Policymaking and Institutions in the Multilevel Greenhouse

About the ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.