Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet - Couverture rigide

Victor, David G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521865018 ISBN 13 : 9780521865012

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. His research has covered a wide array of topics related to international environmental regulation, energy markets and international law. His previous books include Natural Gas and Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (second edition, 2004) and Technological Innovation and Economic Performance (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521865018
• ISBN 13: 9780521865012
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible