Beschreibung:
This book delivers an up-to-date explanation for Australia's weak response to climate change. It contends the dominant'greenhouse mafia' theory, which argues that Australia's weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby.
Preface; Introduction: Australian climate policy and politics; Part I: Conceptual framework; 1 Theory and method; 2 The key discourses; Part II: The cases 3 The Gillard Labor Government (including Rudd 2013); 4 The Abbott Coalition Government; Conclusion: government-industry compatibility?; Index