Overview

How do domestic interests affect international policymaking? What is the role of the nation-state within multilateral regimes? How can we understand the diversity of state responses to the internationalization of environmental regulation? National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime compares the roles of different actors and institutions in international environmental policymaking. It focuses on the formation of a legally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol, to show how domestic interests affect international treaty negotiations. Dana Fisher combines quantitative analysis of social, economic, and environmental data for the member-states of the OECD with qualitative case studies of three key countries, the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands. She argues compellingly that domestic debates within states and subsequent national policy formation have a significantly larger role in international environmental regime formation than many scholars recognize.

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Author:   Dana R. Fisher
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.304kg
ISBN:  

9780742530539

ISBN 10:   0742530531
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 June 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Explaining the Regulation of the Global Environment: Theoretical Perspectives and Alternative Theories Chapter 2 The History of the Science and Policy of the Global Climate Change Regime Chapter 3 Postindustrialization and Global Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis of the Material Characteristics of the Environmental State and Moving toward Understanding the Political Characteristics Chapter 4 State-Led Collaboration in Japan Chapter 5 Market Innovation with Consumer Demand in the Netherlands Chapter 6 Debate and Discord in the United States Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Appendix A: Interviewees in Japan Chapter 9 Appendix B: Interviewees in the Netherlands Chapter 10 Appendix C: Interviewees in the United States

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The world's future depends on what concerted measures major governments take to mitigate destructive effects of industrialization on environments across and around the earth. In this thought-provoking, closely documented study, Dana Fisher shows how officialdom, business, scientists, and activists in each country interact to produce their country's approach to worldwide environmental measures. Her sustained comparisons of Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States establish that countries differ dramatically in their readiness to act against global threats to the environment, and that national politics--not simply national interest--makes the difference.--Tilly, Charles

Author Information

Dana R. Fisher is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University.

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