Changing climates in North American politics : institutions, policymaking, and multilevel governance
Title:
Changing climates in North American politics : institutions, policymaking, and multilevel governance
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9780262259170
9781282694750
9780262012997
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Changing Climates and Institution Building across the Continent / Henrik Selin / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- I. Between Kyoto and Washington -- 2. Climate Change Politics in Mexico / Simone Pulver -- 3. Looking for Leadership: Canada and Climate Change Policy / Peter J. Stoett -- II. States and Cities Out Front -- 4. Second-Generation Climate Policies in the States: Proliferation, Diffusion, and Regionalization / Barry G. Rabe -- 5. Field Notes on the Political Economy of California Climate Policy / W. Michael Hanemann / Alexander E. Farrell -- 6. Climate Leadership in Northeast North America / Henrik Selin / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- 7. Local Government Response to Climate Change: Our Last, Best Hope? / Christopher Gore / Pamela Robinson -- III. Continental Politics -- 8. NAFTA as a Forum for CO[subscript 2] Permit Trading? / Michele M. Betsill -- 9. Renewable Electricity Politics across Borders / Ian H. Rowlands -- 10. Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking / Annika E. Nilsson -- IV. Climate Action among Firms, Campuses, and Individuals -- 11. Business Strategies and Climate Change / Charles A. Jones / David L. Levy -- 12. Insurance and Reinsurance in a Changing Climate / Virginia Haufler -- 13. Campus Climate Action / Dovev Levine -- 14. Communicating Climate Change and Motivating Civic Action: Renewing, Activating, and Building Democracies / Susanne C. Moser -- 15. North American Climate Governance: Policymaking and Institutions in the Multilevel Greenhouse / Henrik Selin / Stacy D. VanDeveer.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.