TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boehmer-Christiansen,Sonja
AU  - Kellow,Aynsley J.
ED  - Edward Elgar Publishing.
TI  - International environmental policy: interests and the failure of the Kyoto process 
SN  - 9781843766964 (e-book)
AV  - GE170 .B64 2002
U1  - 363.7/0526 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cheltenham, U.K., Northampton, Mass.
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Environmental risk assessment
KW  - Greenhouse gases
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Air
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. The international environmental policy process : increasing complexity and implementation failure -- 3. Energy interests, opportunities, and uneven burden-sharing -- 4. The Kyoto process -- 5. The failure of principled discourse -- 6. Institutionalizing scientific advice : designing consensus as a policy driver? -- 7. The suppression of scientific controversy -- 8. Baptists, bootleggers and the Kyoto process
N2  - The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international response to climate change, Kyoto has proved significantly more problematic. International Environmental Policy considers why this is the case. The authors contend that such arguments on this occasion proved inadequate to the task, not just because the core issues of the Kyoto process were subject to more powerful and conflicting interests than previously, and the science too uncertain, but because the science and moral arguments themselves remained too weak. They argue that "global warming" is a failing policy construct because it has served to benefit limited but undeclared interests that were sustained by green beliefs rather than robust scientific knowledge
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ER  -