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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.738/7456097
• Soggetto topico: Climatic changes - Political aspects - North America; Climatic changes - Government policy - North America; Environmental policy - Political aspects - North America; Global warming - Political aspects - North America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SelinHenrik <1971-> VanDeveerStacy D
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing climates in North American politics
• ISBN: 1-282-69475-8; 9786612694752; 0-262-25917-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454565203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American and comparative environmental policy.