Comparative environmental politics
In an era of globalization, the authors argue that nation-states still make the critical decisions affecting the global environment. Nations decide whether to participate in international environmental agreements, and governments make the policies that im
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Jerry MCBeath and
COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 25
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Perolles, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. W. Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. S. Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology – ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. García Herrera, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain M. Lal, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
By
Jerry McBeath University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Political Science, U.S.A. and
Jonathan Rosenberg University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Political Science, U.S.A.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN
10 13 10 13
1-4020-4762-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-4762-6 (HB) 1-4020-4763-0 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4763-3 (e-book)
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To Jenifer Huang and Anne-Marie, and to our parents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments …………………………………...……………… About the authors ……………………………………………………
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…………………………………………………………………… CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .………………… 1. The Nature of the Subject ………………………… 2. The Relevance of Comparative Environmental ……………………………… ……… ……………………… … Politics .… 3. Unit of Analysis: The Nation-State ……………….. 4. A Political Approach ……………………………… 5. Research in Comparative Environmental Politics … 6. Plan of the Book ………….…………………………
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