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Global commons, domestic decisions : the comparative politics of climate change / edited by Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - xi, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - American and comparative environmental policy . - American and comparative environmental policy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : global commons, domestic decisions / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- European Union leadership in climate change : mitigation through multilevel reinforcement / Miranda A. Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien -- The United States as outlier : economic and institutional challenges to US climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Russia and the Kyoto Protocol : from hot air to implementation? / Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- Climate leadership, Japanese style : embedded symbolism and post-2001 Kyoto Protocol politics / Yves Tiberghien and Miranda A. Schreurs -- The struggle of ideas and self-interest in Canadian climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Climate clever? Kyoto and Australia's decade of recalcitrance / Kate Crowley -- Chinese climate policy : domestic priorities, foreign policy, and emerging implementation / Gørild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan -- Conclusion : the comparative politics of climate change / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.

ISBN: 9780262014267 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262014262 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262514316 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262514311 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009045669

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB078020 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015588780 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Climatic changes--Government policy--International cooperation.
Comparative government.

LC Class. No.: QC903 / .G565 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 363.738/74