1st Edition

The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama

By Hugh Atkinson Copyright 2018
128 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The last two decades have witnessed an ever growing partisan divide in US politics over climate change and global warming. Significant elements in the Republican Party became openly hostile to the scientific evidence and, following the election of George W. Bush, legislative action at the federal level effectively ground to a halt. This opened up space at the state and local level to develop... Read more
Introduction

Chapter one Two decades of change: consensus and conflict

Chapter two The Obama Presidency

Chapter three Interests, Influence and Power

Chapter four The Politics of Energy

Chapter five Action on Climate Change at State and City Level

Chapter six The USA as a World Leader in Tackling Climate Change and Building a More Sustainable World: Opportunities and Constraints

Conclusion

Biography

Hugh Atkinson is a tutor in politics and sustainability at London South Bank University. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Bristol. His main research specialism is in the politics of climate change.

‘Hugh Atkinson’s timely analysis of policy under Obama is a crucial study of one of the world’s most important states in the struggle to address climate change. An indispensable guide that traverses the pre-Obama years, local and national policy, and international relations with aplomb, this book is empirically rich and analytically insightful’. - Paul Tobin, University of Manchester, UK.