National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 191 pages
This book follows the groundbreaking Kyoto Protocol from the time of its drafting in 1997 to analyze its viability as an environmental treaty. Dana R. Fisher uses a valuable combination of substantive interview data and country case studies to understand the complexity of the domestic and international debates taking place around the Protocol. With its unique blend of quantitative and qualitative data, this study presents compelling evidence that domestic interests are crucial in the formation of international environmental policymaking.

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Explaining the Regulation of the Global Environment Theoretical Perspectives and Alternative Theories
1
The History of the Science and Policy of the Global Climate Change Regime
21
Empirically Analyzing the Material Characteristics of the Environmental State and Moving toward Understanding the Political Characteristics
41
StateLed Collaboration in Japan
63
Market Innovation with Consumer Demand in the Netherlands
83
Debate and Discord in the United States
105
Conclusion
143
People Interviewed in Japan
155
People Interviewed in the Netherlands
157
People Interviewed in the United States
159
Bibliography
163
Index
183
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Dana R. Fisher is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University.

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