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The Drought Dilemma States, Innovation, and the Politics of Water Quantity

The Drought Dilemma: States, Innovation, and the Politics of Water Quantity

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jonathan Farley, Jonathan Fisk, John C. Morris
April 29, 2024

Water policy in United States is one of the most complex topics in the field of public policy. This book, a comparative study of Texas, California, and Alabama’s drought response, provides for the first time a common framework for analysis to investigate how water scarcity and droughts have ...

Populism, Eco-populism, and the Future of Environmentalism

Populism, Eco-populism, and the Future of Environmentalism

1st Edition

By James R. Stone Jr.
January 29, 2024

Populism, Eco-populism, and the Future of Environmentalism analyzes the history and language of populism in order to fully comprehend the threat of eco-fascism – paradoxically revealing that it is possible for there to be both progressive eco-Populist and right-wing sham eco-Populist discourses. ...

Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality, Agency, and Governance

Metanarrative and the Environment: A Story of Morality, Agency, and Governance

1st Edition

By Stephen James Purdey
November 22, 2023

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human ...

Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance Pathways to Effectiveness

Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance: Pathways to Effectiveness

1st Edition

Edited By Liliana B. Andonova, Moira V. Faul, Dario Piselli
May 31, 2023

Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance investigates the goals, ideals, and realities of sustainability partnerships and offers a theoretical framework to help disentangle the multiple and interrelated pathways that shape their effectiveness. Partnerships are ubiquitous in...

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues

1st Edition

Edited By Robert A. Dibie
August 23, 2018

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues presents tools and concepts about environmental policies in several developed and developing countries. It explores a broad survey of ecological modernization theory, ecological feminism theory, environmental justice theory, the concept ...

Climate and Clean Energy Policy State Institutions and Economic Implications

Climate and Clean Energy Policy: State Institutions and Economic Implications

1st Edition

By Benjamin H. Deitchman
August 14, 2018

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development. Policymakers from around the world already recognize the leadership of American states in this domain. Rooted in public policy theory, and employing a mixed-methods ...

National Climate Policy A Multi-field Approach

National Climate Policy: A Multi-field Approach

1st Edition

By Elin Lerum Boasson
April 11, 2017

Failed attempts at producing ambitious global climate commitments and instruments have made it increasingly important for nation states to deliver climate policies. This in turn requires a better understanding of national climate policymaking.  In this book, Elin Lerum Boasson develops an ...

Framing Environmental Disaster Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

1st Edition

By Melissa K. Merry
January 29, 2016

The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.  Interest groups, public officials, and media organizations have spent considerable time documenting the ...

Globalization, Political Institutions and the Environment in Developing Countries

Globalization, Political Institutions and the Environment in Developing Countries

1st Edition

By Gabriele Spilker
May 21, 2015

Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount. The fallout from this increase is evidenced by the struggle of cities like Beijing to ...

Green vs. Green The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

Green vs. Green: The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

1st Edition

By Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed
May 21, 2015

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new ...

The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation The Perspective of State Regulators

The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators

1st Edition

By Michelle C. Pautz, Sara Rinfret
February 27, 2015

When we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Although such a focus is understandable, it neglects the actors most responsible for the implementation ...

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