Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy
Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy
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州议会和温室：美国气候变化政策的新兴政治
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2004
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B. Rabe
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没有任何环境问题能像全球气候变化那样让人感到绝望。世界上许多地区，包括美国的一些地区，最近经历了一系列不同寻常的剧烈天气事件。许多气候变化分析预测了圣经中所描述的恐怖，如大规模洪水、栖息地丧失、物种丧失以及与气候变暖有关的流行病。这种对即将到来的灾难的描述引发了极端的反应，其中一些观察家简单地将全球气候变化视为最坏的情况，认为这是一个需要适度适应的小麻烦。因此，一个以机构僵局著称的美国联邦政府在过去十年里在这方面几乎一事无成，这也许并不奇怪。然而，政策惯性并不是本书的主题。《州宅与温室》考察了州级政府在全球气候变化问题上政策的惊人演变。环境政策分析师巴里·拉贝详细介绍了一系列不同的创新案例，详细分析了旨在对抗全球变暖的州级政策。这本书解释了为什么国家在全球气候变化方面的创新相对活跃，以及为什么迄今为止很少受到关注。拉贝从最近美国经历的混乱中得出了更大的潜在教训。《州宅和温室》有助于将关于全球气候变化的争论从夸夸其谈转移到政治和技术上可行的领域。
No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas of the world, including regions of the United States, have experienced a wide range of unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much climate change analysis forecasts horrors of biblical proportions, such as massive floods, habitat loss, species loss, and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts of impending disaster have helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss global climate change as, at the very worst, a minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area in the last decade. Policy inertia is not the story of this book, however. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming. The book explains why state innovation in global climate change has been relatively vigorous and why it has drawn so little attention thus far. Rabe draws larger potential lessons from this recent flurry of American experience. Statehouse and Greenhouse helps to move debate over global climate change from bombast to the realm of what is politically and technically feasible.