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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Brulle, Robert J. (Editor), Roberts, J. Timmons (Editor), Spencer, Miranda C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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