Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies - Couverture souple

Bryner, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262517876 ISBN 13 : 9780262517874

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2012

Synopsis

How policies aimed at addressing climate change, air pollution, and energy use can be effectively integrated.

The idea of the interconnectedness of nature is at the heart of environmental science. By contrast, American policy making and governance are characterized by fragmentation. Separation of powers, divergent ideologies, and geographical separation all work against a unified environmental policy. Nowhere does this mismatch between problem and solution pose a greater challenge than in climate change policy, which has implications for energy use, air quality, and such related areas as agriculture and land use. This book stresses the importance of environmental policy integration at all levels of government. It shows that effectively integrated climate, energy, and air pollution policy would ensure that tradeoffs are clear, that policies are designed to maximize and coordinate beneficial effects, and that implementation takes into account the wide range of related issues.

The authors focus on four major climate-change policy issues: burning coal to generate electricity, increasing the efficiency and use of alternative energy, reducing emissions from transportation, and understanding agriculture's role in both generating and sequestering greenhouse gases. Going beyond specific policy concerns, the book provides a framework, based on the idea of policy integration, for assessing future climate-change policy choices.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Bryner was Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Director of the Natural Resources Law Center, and Research Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law until his death in 2010. His books include Global Warming: A Reference Handbook and Blue Skies, Green Politics.

Robert J. Duffy is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University and the author of The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262517876
• ISBN 13: 9780262517874
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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