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Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy : Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States /

After describing federal green energy initiatives in the first two years of the Obama administration, Hess turns his attention to the state and local levels, examining demand-side and supply-side support for green industry and local small business. He analyzes the successes and failures of green coa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hess, David J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Energy, manufacturing, and the changing global economy
  • Green jobs and the green energy transition
  • Green industrial policy and the 111th Congress
  • State governments and the greening of import substitution
  • The greening of regional industrial clusters
  • Localist alternatives to the mainstream transition
  • Green transition coalitions and geographical unevenness
  • After 2010: continued unevenness in the green transition
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: state government votes for green energy laws.