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The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama

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The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama book

The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama

DOI link for The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama

The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama book

ByHugh Atkinson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 31 October 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598642
Pages 128 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315598642
SubjectsEnvironment and Sustainability, Politics & International Relations
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Atkinson, H. (2018). The Politics of Climate Change under President Obama. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598642

The last two decades have witnessed an ever growing partisan divide in US politics over climate change and global warming. Significant elements in the Republican Party became openly hostile to the scientific evidence and, following the election of George W. Bush, legislative action at the federal level effectively ground to a halt. This opened up space at the state and local level to develop climate change policies with cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and New York implementing a number of initiatives that brought real and substantive developments. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 seemed to open new possibilities for federal and global leadership once more and whilst the Obama administration has been criticised for a somewhat contradictory approach to the issue at times, there were nonetheless a number of substantive policy developments.

Through a substantive and detailed analysis of the politics of climate change, this book places the evolution of US climate policy within broader debates on the nature of politics in the US and argues that there exists a latent potential, often obscured by the complexities of its political system, for America to act as a world leader on the issue.

This work will appeal particularly to students and scholars in American Politics, but will also prove useful to those in the fields of general Politics, climate change, sustainability, and environmental studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 1|20 pages

Environmental policy and climate change

Two decades of change, consensus and conflict
ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 2|15 pages

The Obama Presidency

ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 3|16 pages

Interests, influence and power

ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 4|18 pages

The politics of energy

ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 5|17 pages

Action on climate change at state and city level

ByHugh Atkinson

chapter 6|17 pages

The US as a world leader in tackling climate change and building a more sustainable world

Opportunities and constraints
ByHugh Atkinson

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion

ByHugh Atkinson
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