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International Environmental Policy

Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process

By: Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen,Aynsley J. Kellow

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International Environmental Policy

Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process

By: Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen,Aynsley J. Kellow

The book does not attempt to say what should be done about global warming. Instead it uses a framework of thinking about how interests including those of governments and scientists as well as business and activists affect negotiations over international issues. The ultimate aim is to reconsider the international environmental institutions that attempt to balance these interests and forge workable agreements. The failure of Kyoto points to inadequacies in the current mechanisms. Boehmer-Christiansen and Kellow have made a valuable contribution to understanding this failure and where solutions might emerge. Ross McKitrick, The World Economy The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international response to climate change, Kyoto has proved significantly more problematic. International Environmental Policy considers why this is the case. The authors contend that such arguments on this occasion proved inadequate to the task, not just because the core issues of the Kyoto process were subject to more powerful and conflicting interests than previously, and the science too uncertain, but because the science and moral arguments themselves remained too weak. They argue that global warming is a failing policy construct because it has served to benefit limited but undeclared interests that were sustained by green beliefs rather than robust scientific knowledge. This highly topical book takes a frank look at the political motivations that underpin the global warming debate, and will appeal to political scientists and energy policy analysts as well as anyone with an interest in the future of the environment and in the policies we create to protect it.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1843766965

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Science and Public Policy

The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science

By: Aynsley J. Kellow

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Science and Public Policy

The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science

By: Aynsley J. Kellow

Argues that the virtual nature of much environmental science and the application of non-science principles such as the precautionary principle facilitate the virtuous corruption of environmental science. This book illustrates that the problem is widespread than this area alone would suggest and is common in the important field of climate science.

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229

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1847208762

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9781847208767

Transforming Power

The Politics of Electricity Planning

By: Aynsley Kellow

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Transforming Power

The Politics of Electricity Planning

By: Aynsley Kellow

Originally published in 1996, this book is an exploration and analysis of the electricity industry in the context of uncertainty following the energy crisis of the 1970s and concern over the greenhouse effect. Few industries demand a similar level of foresight and planning, or such vast amounts of capital. The book examines five well-known Australian, Canadian and New Zealand cases and closely analyses the ways in which various agencies have sought ends to serve the means at their disposal. Electricity has long been regarded as a natural monopoly, but questions of privatisation, regulation and government control are increasingly prevalent. The book explores these issues and also notes the experiences of other countries in its analysis of institutional reform. Aynsley Kellow argues for different approaches to electricity planning, which offer much by way of economic savings and minimisation of environmental problems.

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245

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Cambridge University Press

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0521471222

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9780521471220

International Toxic Risk Management

Ideals, Interests and Implementation

By: Aynsley Kellow

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International Toxic Risk Management

Ideals, Interests and Implementation

By: Aynsley Kellow

This book is concerned with international regulation, negotiation and policy-making in the environmental realm.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521654696

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9780521654692

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International Environmental Policy

International Environmental Policy

Science and Public Policy

Science and Public Policy

Transforming Power

Transforming Power

International Toxic Risk Management

International Toxic Risk Management

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