Climate Governance Across the Globe - Pioneers, Leaders and Followers

Sommario

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: Climate governance across the globe: pioneers, leaders and followers Part 2: Global South 2. China: Emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level 3. India: From climate laggard to global solar energy leader 4. Costa Rica and Vietnam: Pioneers in green transformations 5. Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand’s climate leadership: ‘My generation’s nuclear-free moment’ 6. Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia: Domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South Part 3: United States and Europe 7. Climate change politics and policy in the United States: Forward, reverse and through the looking glass 8. European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Conference of the Parties 9. Climate policy in Germany: Pioneering a complex transformation process 10. Lessons from climate action in the UK: The limitations of state leadership 11. Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries: Small state syndrome or novel middle power? 12. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change: Institutional pioneership by a climate laggard? 13. Switzerland: International commitments and domestic drawbacks Part 4: Conclusion 14. Conclusion: Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance reassessed

Info autore

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel is Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies at the University of Hull where he is Director of the Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS), UK.
Mikael Skou Andersen is Professor of Environmental Policy Analysis at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Paul Tobin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.

Riassunto

This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance, by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin, Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Rudiger K.w. (University of Hull Wurzel
• Con la collaborazione di: Mikael Skou Andersen (Editore), Andersen Mikael Skou (Editore), Paul Tobin (Editore), Tobin Paul (Editore), Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367434366
• ISBN: 978-0-367-43436-6
• Pagine: 282
• Serie: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Environmental science, engineering and technology