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Global warming policy in Japan and Britain : Interactions between institutions and issue characteristics /

The author explores how different countries responded to the common policy imperative of tackling global warming. He discusses why their responses were similar in some aspects and different in others, taking Japan and Britain as examples.

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Autor principal: Oshitani, Shizuka (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction; 2; 1; Science and the international politics of global warming; 3; Frameworks of analysis: the institutional approach and the issue-based approach; 4; Making global warming policy; 5; Policy developments in Japan on global warming: the politics of conflict and the producer-oriented policy response; 6; Co-optation and exclusion: controlled policy integration in Japan; 7; Policy developments in Britain on global warming: in search of political leadership; 8; Competition and pressure: British policy integration; 9; Interests, institutions and global warming; 10. 
505 0 |a Epilogue: after the Kyoto conferenceReferences; Figure 2.1 The mechanism of the greenhouse effect. Source: Houghton et al. (1992: 7).; Figure 2.2 Contribution of global greenhouse gases to the enhanced greenhouse effect. PFCs = CF4 and C2F6. HFCs = HFC-23, HFC-134a, HFC-152a. Source: IPCC (2001a: 356-8).; Figure 2.3 Indicators of the human influence on the atmosphere during the industrial era (global atmospheric concentrations of three well mixed greenhouse gases). Note that the ice core and fern data for several sites in Antarctica and Greenland (shown by. 
505 0 |a Figure 2.4 Combined air and sea surface temperature anomalies (°C), 1861-2000, relative to 1961-90. Note that the bars on the annual number represent two standard errors. Source: IPCC (2001a: 26). Figure 2.5 Temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations over the last 160,000 years (from ice cores). Source: Houghton (2002).; Figure 2.6 The world's largest contributors to carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 (total 6.4 billion tonnes of carbon). Source: The Energy Conservation Centre (2003). 
505 0 |a Figure 3.2 The relationship between the effective number of parliamentary parties and interest group pluralism, 1945-96. Source: Lijphart (1999: 183). Figure 4.1 Economic structures (value added) in Japan and the UK in 1990 and 2000. Source: OECD (2001).; Figure 4.2 Employment structures in Japan and the UK in 1990 and 2000. Source: OECD (2001).; Figure 4.3 Energy consumption in industry in Japan. Source: IEA (1993, 2002).; Figure 4.4 Energy consumption in industry in Britain. Source: IEA (1993, 2002). 
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