This work provides a comparative analysis of environmental policy in Germany and Britain, with reference to vehicle emissions of passenger cars. The authors analyze and compare national policies on the reduction of vehicle emissions in the two countries, and examine the interaction of their policies for the vehicle industry.

The Politics of Reducing Vehicle Emissions in Britain and Germany

Politics & Social Sciences

Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja

Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society

Weidner, Helmut

Politics & Government

Fairleigh Dickinson

International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process

The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal Protocol had done. 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. This highly topical book takes a frank look at the political motivations that underpin the global warming debate, and will appeal to political scientists and energy policy analysts as well as anyone with an interest in the future of the environment and in the policies we create to protect it.

Business & Money

Kellow, Aynsley

Economics

Edward Elgar Publishing

Acid rain is a key environmental issue for Western Europe and this book studies the difference in recognition, impact and policy reaction to it in Britain and West Germany to exemplify the different political attitudes to green issues between the two countries. Based on much original research, the book illustrates the key environmental issue of the North Sea region. It is aimed at those concerned with the policy implications of environmental issues, including economists, political scientists, geographers and international relations specialists.

Acid Polits

Science & Math

CRC-Press

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