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Global commons, domestic decisions [electronic resource] : the comparative politics of climate change / edited by Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.

Contributor(s): Harrison, Kathryn, 1958- | Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh, 1971- | ebrary, Inc.
Series: American and comparative environmental policy. Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2010Description: xi, 312 p. : ill.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation | Comparative governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.738/74 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : global commons, domestic decisions / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- European Union leadership in climate change : mitigation through multilevel reinforcement / Miranda A. Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien -- The United States as outlier : economic and institutional challenges to US climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Russia and the Kyoto Protocol : from hot air to implementation? / Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- Climate leadership, Japanese style : embedded symbolism and post-2001 Kyoto Protocol politics / Yves Tiberghien and Miranda A. Schreurs -- The struggle of ideas and self-interest in Canadian climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Climate clever? Kyoto and Australia's decade of recalcitrance / Kate Crowley -- Chinese climate policy : domestic priorities, foreign policy, and emerging implementation / Gørild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan -- Conclusion : the comparative politics of climate change / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : global commons, domestic decisions / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- European Union leadership in climate change : mitigation through multilevel reinforcement / Miranda A. Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien -- The United States as outlier : economic and institutional challenges to US climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Russia and the Kyoto Protocol : from hot air to implementation? / Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- Climate leadership, Japanese style : embedded symbolism and post-2001 Kyoto Protocol politics / Yves Tiberghien and Miranda A. Schreurs -- The struggle of ideas and self-interest in Canadian climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Climate clever? Kyoto and Australia's decade of recalcitrance / Kate Crowley -- Chinese climate policy : domestic priorities, foreign policy, and emerging implementation / Gørild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan -- Conclusion : the comparative politics of climate change / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.