International environmental policy interests and the failure of the Kyoto process /

The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international respons...

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Main Author: Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja.
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Kellow, Aynsley J. 1951-
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2002.
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Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/184064818X.xml
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The international environmental policy process : increasing complexity and implementation failure
  • 3. Energy interests, opportunities, and uneven burden-sharing
  • 4. The Kyoto process
  • 5. The failure of principled discourse
  • 6. Institutionalizing scientific advice : designing consensus as a policy driver?
  • 7. The suppression of scientific controversy
  • 8. Baptists, bootleggers and the Kyoto process.