Climate obstruction across Europe /
"Decades of effort to address anthropogenic climate change have failed to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions that are destabilizing Earth's life-support systems. Many theories of why we have failed have been advanced, but one reason has barely been studied: the well-organized efforts to...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Climate Obstruction across Europe
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction: The First Portrait of Climate Obstruction across Europe
- 2. Climate Obstruction in the United Kingdom: Charting the Resistance to Climate Action
- 3. Climate Obstruction in Scotland: The Politics of Oil and Gas
- 4. Climate Obstruction in Ireland: The Contested Transformation of an Agricultural Economy
- 5. Climate Obstruction in Sweden: The Green Welfare State-Both Progressive and Obstructionist
- 6. Climate Obstruction in Germany: Hidden in Plain Sight?
- 7. Climate Obstruction in the Netherlands: Strategic and Systemic Obstruction of Dutch Climate Policies (1980-Present)
- 8. Climate Obstruction in Poland: A Governmental-Industrial Complex
- 9. Climate Obstruction in Russia: Surviving a Resource-Dependent Economy, an Authoritarian Regime, and a Disappearing Civil Society
- 10. Climate Obstruction in the Czech Republic: Winning by Default
- 11. Climate Obstruction in Italy: From Outright Denial to Widespread Climate Delay
- 12. Climate Obstruction in Spain: From Boycotting the Expansion of Renewable Energy to Blocking Compassion Toward Animals
- 13. Climate Obstruction in the European Union: Business Coalitions and the Technocracy of Delay
- 14. Conclusion: Ten Lessons about Climate Obstruction in Europe
- Index