Pollution Politics And Power

Author : Thomas O. McGarity
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674242807

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Pollution, Politics, and Power by Thomas O. McGarity Pdf

The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals. A big question now is how to prevent backsliding. Pollution, Politics, and Power tells the story of the remarkable transformation of the electric power industry over the last four decades. Electric power companies have morphed from highly polluting regulated monopolies into competitive, deregulated businesses that generate, transmit, and distribute cleaner electricity. Power companies are investing heavily in natural gas and utility-scale renewable resources and have stopped building new coal-fired plants. They facilitate end-use efficiency and purchase excess electricity produced by rooftop solar panels and backyard wind turbines, helping to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But these beneficial changes have come with costs. The once-powerful coal industry is on the edge of ruin, with existing coal-fired plants closing and coal mines shutting down. As a result, communities throughout Appalachia suffer from high unemployment and reduced resources, which have exacerbated a spiraling opioid epidemic. The Trump administration’s efforts to revive the coal industry by scaling back environmental controls and reregulating electricity prices have had little effect on the coal industry’s decline. Major advances therefore come with warning signs, which we must heed in charting the continuing course of sustainable electricity. In Pollution, Politics, and Power, Thomas O. McGarity examines the progress made, details lessons learned, and looks to the future with suggestions for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal’s demise.

Author : Cynthia H. Enloe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000027225530

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The Politics of Pollution in a Comparative Perspective by Cynthia H. Enloe Pdf

Author : Michael E. Kraft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315437040

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Environmental Policy and Politics by Michael E. Kraft Pdf

Covering global threats such as climate change, population growth, and loss of biodiversity, as well as national, state, and local problems of environmental pollution, energy use, and natural resource use and conservation, Environmental Policy and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. policymaking processes, the legislative and administrative settings for policy decisions, the role of interest groups and public opinion in environmental politics, and the public policies that result. It helps readers understand modern environmental policy and its implications, including the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to problem-solving. New to the Seventh Edition Each chapter includes the latest information about environmental challenges and governmental responses to them, with extensive citation of sources and websites that allow students to find the most recent studies and reports. Each chapter covers key political and policy decisions through early 2017, including presidential appointments, budgetary decisions, major legislative initiatives, and congressional actions. Each chapter introduction includes new statements about learning objectives to facilitate student understanding of key concepts and their applications, arguments advanced over environmental challenges and policies, and the goals and methods of environmental policy analysis. Chapters compare decisions about major environmental, energy, and natural resource policies among the presidential administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, to the extent possible. Each chapter’s case studies have been changed or updated to include the latest developments and examples that should improve their appeal to students. These include controversies over the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and new fuel economy standards, new policies on toxic chemicals, the role of environmental and energy policies in the 2016 elections, changes in the nation’s reliance on energy resources, standards for evaluating environmental and resource policies, and the Paris Agreement on climate change. Summaries of scientific studies, government reports, and policy analyses have been updated throughout the text to reflect the most current research and information in the field. All chapters include revised discussion questions and new suggested readings. The writing and flow of material have been improved throughout to make the chapters more accessible and useful to students.

Author : E. Melanie Dupuis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814719619

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Smoke and Mirrors by E. Melanie Dupuis Pdf

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483370903

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Global Environmental Politics by Ronnie D. Lipschutz Pdf

Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise—a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches. He argues that much light can be shed on global environmental degradation if we look beyond the politics of conflict and cooperation and explore environmental problems from their very "roots." Using a framework that accounts for the ontologies, material conditions, and power relations that structure global environmental problems, Lipschutz is able to more effectively question attempts to clean up the globe and sustain the world′s natural resources. Throughout the text, the author uses compelling cases to illustrate the effects of globalization and capitalism, yet is careful to make the link between the local and the global to show how we, as individuals, are both consumers of goods and producers of pollution. A powerful new approach How is the financing of a water system in Bolivia linked to long-standing forestation practices in India? Taking nothing for granted, the root causes of major global environmental problems are exposed and subjected to rigorous analysis. Lipschutz shows, for instance, how privatization operates in different global contexts with strikingly similar consequences. In what ways are liberalism and realism actually two sides of the same coin? Both make self-interest—of the individual and of the state—key operating terms. In a revealing comparison, Lipschutz explores the limits of these dominant political models to effectively frame and solve environmental problems. What kinds of political, social, and environmental practices bring about meaningful change? By emphasizing the global impacts of local actions, the text shows how attempts to control environmental problems may actually reproduce the very systems they are meant to ameliorate. Combined with practical pedagogy Rich historical background helps contextualize contemporary issues. Extensive suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter guide students to further research, while tables and figures elegantly show data and concepts. The emphasis on assessing the root causes of global environmental problems and models encourages critical thinking. Students are also encouraged to rethink their own role in the global environmental system and to get involved in effective forms of social change.

Author : Vivian E. Thomson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262036344

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Climate of Capitulation by Vivian E. Thomson Pdf

How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities. The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In Climate of Capitulation, Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level. Thomson, a former member of Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board, identifies a “climate of capitulation” in state government—a deeply rooted favoritism toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policies. Thomson narrates three cases involving coal and air pollution from her time on the Air Board. She illuminates the overt and covert power struggles surrounding air pollution limits for a coal-fired power plant just across the Potomac from Washington, for a controversial new coal-fired electrical generation plant in coal country, and for coal dust pollution from truck traffic in a country hollow. Thomson links Virginia's climate of capitulation with campaign donations that make legislators politically indebted to coal and electric utility interests, a traditionalistic political culture tending to inertia, and a part-time legislature that depended on outside groups for information and bill drafting. Extending her analysis to fifteen other coal-dependent states, Thomson offers policy reforms aimed at mitigating the ingrained biases toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policy making.

Author : Douglas Macdonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551112779

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Business and Environmental Politics in Canada by Douglas Macdonald Pdf

"This is an important and probing analysis and is without doubt the definitive book on business and environmental politics and policy in Canada." - G. Bruce Doern, Carleton University

Author : James Ridgeway
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UCAL:B4365626

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The Politics of Ecology by James Ridgeway Pdf

The premise of this book is that the source of pollution is actually concentrated corporate power. Therefore the author presents proposals that are not meant as adjustments or reforms, but as different ways of attacking that concentrated corporate power, thereby opening up possibilities for change.

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311473

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Environmental Politics and Policy by John McCormick Pdf

This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz,Doreen Stabinsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538105115

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Environmental Politics for a Changing World by Ronnie D. Lipschutz,Doreen Stabinsky Pdf

This book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and address those problems through mobilization of collective action and social power. The second edition also offers: •Updated examples and stories of political struggles and the actors involved •Explicit attention to various forms of power in environmental politics, including structural and social power •Local politics and collective action as related to global environmental politics •Discussion of emerging issues such as synthetic biology; commodification and financialization of nature, including carbon markets; and geoengineering

Author : Matthew A. Crenson
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033950192

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The Un-politics of Air Pollution by Matthew A. Crenson Pdf

Artworks form the colleciton of the Australian War Memorial relating to the Royal Australian Air Force.

Author : Walter A. Rosenbaum
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544358277

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Environmental Politics and Policy by Walter A. Rosenbaum Pdf

Walter A. Rosenbaum’s classic Environmental Politics and Policy provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. The first half of the book sets needed context and describes the policy process while the second half covers specific environmental issues such as air and water; toxic and hazardous substances; energy; and a global policymaking chapter focused on climate change and trans-boundary politics. The eleventh edition includes updates on the Trump administration′s initiatives and controversies with regard to environmental policy, offering the currency and relevancy needed for any environmental politics course.

Author : George A. Gonzalez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791483862

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The Politics of Air Pollution by George A. Gonzalez Pdf

Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental groups, but rather locally oriented economic elites in conjunction with state and local governments. These local growth coalitions, composed of mostly large landholders, land developers, and the owners of regional media and utility firms, support clean air policies insofar as they contribute to the creation of a positive investment climate and, in turn, bring about greater profits through increased land values and an expanded local consumer base.

Author : Sarah S. Elkind
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780807834893

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How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy by Sarah S. Elkind Pdf

Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over

Author : Gary Bryner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262304313

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Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies by Gary Bryner Pdf

How policies aimed at addressing climate change, air pollution, and energy use can be effectively integrated. The idea of the interconnectedness of nature is at the heart of environmental science. By contrast, American policy making and governance are characterized by fragmentation. Separation of powers, divergent ideologies, and geographical separation all work against a unified environmental policy. Nowhere does this mismatch between problem and solution pose a greater challenge than in climate change policy, which has implications for energy use, air quality, and such related areas as agriculture and land use. This book stresses the importance of environmental policy integration at all levels of government. It shows that effectively integrated climate, energy, and air pollution policy would ensure that tradeoffs are clear, that policies are designed to maximize and coordinate beneficial effects, and that implementation takes into account the wide range of related issues. The authors focus on four major climate-change policy issues: burning coal to generate electricity, increasing the efficiency and use of alternative energy, reducing emissions from transportation, and understanding agriculture's role in both generating and sequestering greenhouse gases. Going beyond specific policy concerns, the book provides a framework, based on the idea of policy integration, for assessing future climate-change policy choices.