Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional CooperationThis book is likely to become the definitive study on European global climate change politics. Its focus on the formulation, ratification, and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol within Europe make it essential reading for all who wish to understand how |
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Our slant toward FPA, often in combination with or supplemental to other analytical approaches, can provide new insights not fully revealed by that of other work. Toward that end, the chapters in this book describe the responses of ...
Our slant toward FPA, often in combination with or supplemental to other analytical approaches, can provide new insights not fully revealed by that of other work. Toward that end, the chapters in this book describe the responses of ...
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Applying FPA techniques to our study of international environmental issues, or at least considering them along with other analytical approaches, can result in interesting findings simply because environmental issues like GCC are ...
Applying FPA techniques to our study of international environmental issues, or at least considering them along with other analytical approaches, can result in interesting findings simply because environmental issues like GCC are ...
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Consequently, this type of approach to EFP would divert our focus away from bureaucracy, public opinion and interest groups, pointing instead to, for example, 'environmental hegemons' like the US in largely determining GCC policies, ...
Consequently, this type of approach to EFP would divert our focus away from bureaucracy, public opinion and interest groups, pointing instead to, for example, 'environmental hegemons' like the US in largely determining GCC policies, ...
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Alternatively, state-centric approaches suggest that foreign policy is shaped by the structure of government and the individuals and agencies that promulgate and implement foreign policies on its behalf, often with an emphasis 'on the ...
Alternatively, state-centric approaches suggest that foreign policy is shaped by the structure of government and the individuals and agencies that promulgate and implement foreign policies on its behalf, often with an emphasis 'on the ...
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Indeed, approaches might suitably be combined to arrive at the richest explanations for policy (although theoretical purists might not like this). For example, power in the international system is seldom going to adequately explain GCC ...
Indeed, approaches might suitably be combined to arrive at the richest explanations for policy (although theoretical purists might not like this). For example, power in the international system is seldom going to adequately explain GCC ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
domestic sources of environmental foreign policy | 41 |
the United Kingdom in European climate policy | 63 |
foreign policy of the Netherlands | 87 |
5 Climatic issues in Polish foreign policy | 113 |
6 Sweden climate change and the EU context | 139 |
accommodating environmental foreign policy in a federal state | 161 |
Norwegian NGOs in the climate change negotiations | 185 |
land use domestic stakeholders and EU foreign policy | 233 |
international regimes and policy diffusion | 255 |
EU influence on Norway and Germany | 279 |
13 Climate change policy and the enlargement of the EU | 305 |
German European and international politics | 323 |
international equity and justice in European policy | 349 |
power interests and ideas in domestic and international politics | 393 |
Index | 407 |
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Page 357 - The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
Page 8 - IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue.
Page 360 - ... the developed country Parties. 4. The developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in annex II shall also assist the developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects.
Page 357 - Noting that the largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed countries, that per capita emissions in developing countries are still relatively low and that the share of global emissions originating in developing countries will grow to meet their social and development needs...
Page 306 - The Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the Member States.
Page 8 - This projected rate of warming is much larger than the observed changes during the twentieth century and is "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional Cooperation |
| Editor | Paul G. Harris |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1847204260, 9781847204264 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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