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Bringing together an impressive lineup of leading experts, Henrik Selin and Stacy VanDeveer reveal the fascinating complexity of the bottom-up dynamics of climate change governance in North America. A pioneering analysis, Changing Climates in North American Politics tracks the innovation of deepening interactions -- both vertical and horizontal -- across North America's many actors, institutions, and jurisdictions. It is a treasure chest of insights for anyone looking for pathways toward more effective governance of climate change. -- Peter Dauvergne, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, University of British Columbia and author of The Shadows of Comsumption The strength of this book is its comprehensive coverage of policy making at all levels of government, including sub-national entities. Changing Climates in North American Politics is an important contribution to the fields of climate change and political science because it bridges the gap between state and province environmental efforts and federal policy making. A rare achievement! --Gary Bryner, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University -- Gary C. Bryner The strength of this book is its comprehensive coverage of policymaking at all levels of government, including sub-national entities. Changing Climates in North American Politics is an important contribution to the fields of climate change and political science because it bridges the gap between state and province environmental efforts and federal policymaking. A rare achievement! Gary Bryner , Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University

Bringing together an impressive lineup of leading experts, Henrik Selin and Stacy VanDeveer reveal the fascinating complexity of the bottom-up dynamics of climate change governance in North America. A pioneering analysis, Changing Climates in North American Politics tracks the innovation of deepening interactions--both vertical and horizontal--across North America's many actors, institutions, and jurisdictions. It is a treasure chest of insights for anyone looking for pathways toward more effective governance of climate change. --Peter Dauvergne, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, University of British Columbia and author of The Shadows of Comsumption Timely, accessible, and vibrantly written, Changing Climates maps out the complex terrain of climate politics across North America. The authors cast a wide net and demonstrate how individuals, agencies, and groups across levels of government and sectors of society are driving policy innovations now that will shape our response to the challenge of climate change for decades to come. This much-needed volume challenges the conventional wisdom that there has been little climate action in North America to date, and will be a must read for students, activists, policymakers: anyone, in fact, wanting to understand how climate politics actually work. --Kate O'Neill, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley The strength of this book is its comprehensive coverage of policymaking at all levels of government, including sub-national entities. Changing Climates in North American Politics is an important contribution to the fields of climate change and political science because it bridges the gap between state and province environmental efforts and federal policymaking. A rare achievement! --Gary Bryner, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University Changing Climates in North American Politics is a comprehensive, important, and timely study by leading experts on the multifaceted climate policies in North America, covering numerous subnational and transnational actors as diverse as cities, provinces, states, the private sector, and university networks. This book is a must-read for academics, students, and practitioners of climate policy in North America, but certainly also beyond. --Frank Biermann, --Frank Biermann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-editor of Managers of Global Change

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Henrik Selin is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals (MIT Press). Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the coeditor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press). Barry G. Rabe is J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan, where his primary appointment is in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He also directs the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Michele M. Betsill is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University. David L. Levy is Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research examines the intersection of business strategy and politics in the development of international governance, and he has published widely on the topic. Recently, he has studied the response of multinational corporations in the oil and automobile industries to the emerging greenhouse gas regime, and is currently examining prospects for the renewable energy industry in Massachusetts. He is also the Slovenian translator of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Henrik Selin is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals (MIT Press). Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the coeditor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press).

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