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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Newell |
ISBN: | 0521021235 9780521021234 |
OCLC Number: | 70844513 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2000. |
Description: | x, 222 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; 1. Politics in a warming world: introduction; 2. Existing approaches: problems and limitations; 3. Knowledge, frames and the scientific community; 4. Climate of opinion: the agenda-setting role of the mass media; 5. Climate for business: the political influence of the fossil fuel lobbies; 6. Climate for change: environmental NGOs; 7. Conclusion: states, NGOs and the future of global climate politics; Appendix A: list of abbreviations; Appendix B: chronology of the international response to the issue of climate change; References; Index. |
Responsibility: | Peter Newell. |
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'Its reports are the most authoritative available on the subject.' Climate Policy "...each chapter does an admirable job of highlighting the multiple and complex ways in which each set of nongovernmental actors exercises influence in global climate politics...Newell deserves much credit for directly addressing the methodological challenges associated with detecting and analyzing such phenomena as 'reputational' power and the 'mobilization of bias...' This timely and probing critique of the progressive international temper of our times should be read and pondered by anyone who takes an interest in the ethics of contemporary world politics." Canadian Journal of Political Science "...Newell makes many excellent points about the political scene surrounding global change..." Geoscience Canada Read more...


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