Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy

摘要: No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas the world, including regions United States, have experienced a wide range unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much change analysis forecasts horrors biblical proportions, massive floods, habitat loss, species and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts impending disaster helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss as, at very worst, minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area last decade. Policy inertia not story book, however. Statehouse Greenhouse examines surprising evolution state-level policies on Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details diverse set innovative cases, offering detailed designed combat warming. The book explains why state innovation been relatively vigorous it drawn so little attention thus far. draws larger potential lessons from recent flurry experience. helps move debate over bombast realm what politically technically feasible.