Gonzalez The Politics of Air Pollution

Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8386-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Environmental Policy

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gonzalez, George A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. Local Growth Coalitions, Environmental Groups, and Air Pollution
2. Political Economy and the Policymaking Process
3. The Politics of Air Pollution During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Failure of Technology
4. Real Estate and the Rise of the Automobile
5. The Establishment of Automobile Emission Standards
6. Democratic Ethics, Environmental Groups, and Symbolic Inclusion
Conclusion: Political Power and Global Warming
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

George A. Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He is the coeditor (with Sheldon Kamieniecki and Robert O. Vos) of Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy.