Beschreibung:
Since the Kyoto Protocol's signing in 1997 the United States has been the world's most prominent climate change outlaw. In the United States, air pollution policymaking starts and ends with the states, whose governmental units implement federal programs.
Acknowledgments; Tables and Figures; Introduction: The World's Most Prominent Climate Change Outlaw; Chapter 1: Climate Change Contradictions in the United States; Chapter 2: Constraints and Opportunities: Forces Affecting State-Level Climate and Energy Programs; Chapter 3: Germany: "Wir Stehen Früher Auf" (We Wake Up Earlier); Chapter 4: Brazil: No More "Complexo de Vira-Lata" (Mongrel Complex); Chapter 5: Sophisticated Interdependence; Notes; Bibliography; Index