AuthorMuinzer, Thomas L. author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
TitleClimate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition [electronic resource] : The Climate Change Act 2008 / by Thomas L Muinzer
ImprintCham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019
Edition 1st ed. 2019
Connect tohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94670-2
Descript XIII, 146 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource

SUMMARY

The UK Climate Change Act was the first case of a country implementing blanket legally binding long-term emissions reduction targets in order to combat climate change. This book provides the first accessible and in-depth analysis of the UK’s complex Climate Change Act framework, presenting the discussion in a clear and interdisciplinary manner designed to open the workings of the challenging framework to a broad audience. It discusses the political ‘story’ surrounding the framework, and its treatment in scholarly environmental literature; analyses the technical content of the Act; explores the framework’s international significance, and its internal ‘subnational’ dimensions and impact, engaging the UK’s devolved jurisdictions of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. This first, much-needed interdisciplinary treatment of the framework is both introductory and analytical in nature and will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and general readers of environmental studies, policy and governance.


CONTENT

Foreword; Lord Deben -- 1 Background to the Climate Change Framework -- 2 The Content of the Act -- 3 Multilevel Drivers: The International Level, and the Devolved Level (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales) -- 4 Conclusions


SUBJECT

  1. Environment
  2. Environmental policy
  3. Environmental law
  4. Environment Studies. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X36000
  5. Climate Change Management and Policy. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/314000
  6. Environmental Policy. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X33040
  7. Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/U16002
  8. International Environmental Law. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/R19070
  9. Energy Policy
  10. Economics and Management. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/112000