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Special issue: Global climate change and public policy

Author
Various Authors
Journal/Series
Policy Studies Journal | Vol.19(2); 43 - 161; 119 p.
Date
1991
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-046908)
Publisher | Place of publication
Policy Studies Organization / Iowa State University and Southern Illinois University | Carbondale, IL, USA
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Air & atmosphere
Keyword
Policy/planning Climate change
Abstract

Contents: 1. Policy analysis and the management of climate change: institutional adaptability in the face of scientific uncertainty; 2. Governing global climate change: can we learn from the past in designing the future? 3. Scientific uncertainties, public policy and global warming: how sure is sure enough? 4. State responses to global climate change; 5. Sea level rise and policy change: land use management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin and Mississippi river delta; 6. Institutions for global change: whither environmental governance? 7. Implementing global environmental agreements; 8. The evolution of global regulation of atmospheric pollution; 9. Unilateral environmental policy in the global Commons; 10.Doing well by doing good: technology transfer to protect the ozone; 11.The Montreal Protocol: lessons for formulating policies for global warming.