Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning

This book is an exploration and analysis of the electricity industry in the context of uncertainty following the energy crisis of the 1970s and concern over the greenhouse effect. Electricity has long been regarded as a natural monopoly, but questions of privatization, regulation and government control are increasingly prevalent. The book explores these issues through case studies from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Aynsley Kellow argues for new approaches to electricity planning, which offer both economic and environmental benefits.

Business & Money

Kellow, Aynsley

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation

This original and sometimes controversial book is concerned with international regulation, negotiation and policy-making in the environmental realm. In particular, it focuses on toxic chemicals, and the ways in which risk associated with hazardous substances is assessed, and the policy outcomes that result. A key assertion of the book is that the international arena is more favorable to environment groups while the domestic arena tends to favor industry. The book is based on research into international agencies and takes a multidisciplinary approach.

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Biological Sciences

Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia

Politics & Social Sciences

Doyle, Timothy

Politics & Government

Macmillan Co. of Australia

"This new text combines the theoretical underpinnings of environmental politics in Australia with both the informal and formal structures and processes through which it must be played. But most importantly it goes on to look at how political theory and political practice have an impact on policy making. This makes the work uniquely comprehensive." "Although real cases are referred to throughout the text, Part III deals with detailed case studies, moving from a local environment through state and federal cases to a global perspective where the authors consider Australia's behaviour and performance on the world stage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change marked a reset of global climate policy, but was jeopardised by the partisan nature of the debates. In this unique overview, Aynsley Kellow suggests that global policy on climate change should have started with the Paris Agreement, and that almost a quarter of a century has been wasted following the wrong path. 
Looking critically at the interplay between interests, science, and global norms, Negotiating Climate Change shows how the initial selection of the wrong `metapolicy' hindered the development of global climate policy. Examining key debates, and the problems which arose from them, Kellow exposes the failings of the Kyoto Process and the subsequent issues raised in the negotiations culminating in the Paris Agreement. 
Providing analysis of the failings of past decades as well as looking towards the future of climate policy, this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of global environmental politics, environmental governance and international relations, as well as for policy workers in agencies involved in climate policy.

Negotiating Climate Change: A Forensic Analysis

Edward Elgar Publishing

This book provides a unique examination of how a middle power uses international organisations to achieve greater global influence. The authors focus on the OECD, 'the rich man's club' of most of the world's wealthiest nations. It demonstrates how the decision by Australia to apply for membership was a long drawn out process, delayed by political factors. Eventually agreement was reached with assurances that membership would provide access to valuable and timely policy-related information, especially in relation to international trade and finance. In addition, membership would potentially increase influence by providing greater access to its powerful member states at an earlier stage in their policy discussions and agreements. On gaining membership, Australia found that the OECD's comparative research and policy development activities, across a wide range of areas and issues, were a valuable source for policy learning which, in turn, helped the ongoing maintenance and further building of policy capacity in the country. This detailed study of how a nation state engages with an international organisation will be a great source of insight and information for scholars and advanced students of international relations and public policy. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners working in the field.

Middle Powers and International Organisations: Australia and the OECD

Carroll, Peter

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.

Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja

The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted - for the most part successfully - to the changing needs of its members, both large and small. 
Peter Carroll and Aynsley Kellow provide a comprehensive account and analysis of the origins, development and, most intriguingly, the recent reforms that characterise the OECD. They argue that this increasingly complex organisation has fulfilled its design to be an adaptive, learning organisation and explore how the OECD has spread its wings beyond its European and North American roots to become an increasingly influential body in global governance. Topical chapters include the OECD's work on health and the environment, relations with international, intergovernmental organisations, the OECD's structure and also the key processes. 
This fascinating book will be warmly welcomed by academics, researchers and postgraduate students in a wide range of fields including international relations, international business, political science, public policy and public administration. Public servants in national departments and agencies - particularly those with significant international activities - will also find the book to be of great interest, as will professionals within international organisations such as IMF, World Bank, EU, UN and (of course) the OECD itself.

The OECD: A Study of Organisational Adaptation

International

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Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning

Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning

International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation

International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation

Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia

Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia

Negotiating Climate Change: A Forensic Analysis

Middle Powers and International Organisations: Australia and the OECD

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

The OECD: A Study of Organisational Adaptation