Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers /: pioneers, leaders and followers. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin.
• Editors: Wurzel, Rüdiger; Andersen, Mikael Skou; (Lecturer in politics), Tobin, Paul
• Contents: Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: Climate governance across the globe: pioneers, leaders and followers Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin Part 2: Global South 2. China: Emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level Xinlei Li 3. India: From climate laggard to global solar energy leader Kirsten Jörgensen 4. Costa Rica and Vietnam: Pioneers in green transformations Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alonso Villalobos, Dang Nguyen Anh and Markus Lederer 5. Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand’s climate leadership: ‘My generation’s nuclear-free moment’ David Hall 6. Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia: Domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South Markus Lederer, Chris Höhne, Fee Stehle, Thomas Hickmann and Harald Fuhr Part 3: United States and Europe 7. Climate change politics and policy in the United States: Forward, reverse and through the looking glass Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer 8. European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Conference of the Parties Paul Tobin and Nicole M. Schmidt 9. Climate policy in Germany: Pioneering a complex transformation process Sibyl Steuwer and Julia Hertin 10. Lessons from climate action in the UK: The limitations of state leadership Jeremy F.G. Moulton 11. Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries: Small state syndrome or novel middle power? Mikael Skou Andersen 12. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change: Institutional pioneership by a climate laggard? Diarmuid Torney, Laura Devaney and Pat Brereton 13. Switzerland: International commitments and domestic drawbacks Marlene Kammerer, Karin Ingold and Johann Dupuis Part 4: Conclusion 14. Conclusion: Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance reassessed Paul Tobin, Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and Mikael Skou Andersen
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.738746; Environmental policy -- Case studies; Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000320381; 9781000320305; 9781003014249
• Related ISBNs: 9780367434366
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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