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  • Beyond NIMBY

    Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States

    by Barry Rabe ...
    The virtual inability to open new hazardous waste management facilities in Canada and the United States stems directly from a form of community opposition so common and vehement that it is commonly identified as a syndrome: Not In My Back Yard (or NIMBY). Whether such facilities are proposed by governmental agencies or by private waste management firms, communities are usually shocked to learn ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Ignition

    What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

    by Mary Lou Finley, John Passacantando, Susanne Moser, Rebecca Gould, Bob Musil, Bill Shutkin, Julia West, Ben Gore, Eban Goodstein, Julian Agyeman, Harriet Bulkeley, Aditya Nochur, Bob Doppelt, William Chaloupka, Kenton de Kirby, Pamela Morgan, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, Christopher McGregory Klyza, Barry Rabe, Eileen Claussen, Jared Duval, Nathan Wyeth, David J. Sousa ...
    The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even way of life is dire. So why isn’t America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe?It may lie between the covers of this book. Ignition brings together some of the world’s finest ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Can We Price Carbon?

    by Barry G. Rabe ...
    Series series American and Comparative Environmental Policy
    A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by cap-and-trade systems, or other methods. But what about the politics of carbon pricing? Do political realities ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • When Federalism Works

    by Paul E. Peterson, Barry G. Rabe, Kenneth K. Wong ...
    Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs. More recently these same programs have been criticized for excessive regulations and red tape, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism

    by Frank J. Thompson, Kenneth K. Wong, Barry G. Rabe ...
    How Trump has used the federal government to promote conservative policiesThe presidency of Donald Trump has been unique in many respects-most obviously his flamboyant personal style and disregard for conventional niceties and factual information. But one area hasn't received as much attention as it deserves: Trump's use of the administrative presidency, including executive orders and regulatory ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Statehouse and Greenhouse

    The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy

    by Barry G. Rabe ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Environmental Policy

    New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Michael E. Kraft, Barry G. Rabe, Norman J. Vig ...
    As environmental issues continue to become more prevalent in society and surrounding policy challenges become more complex, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for current policy. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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  • Climate Of Corruption : Politics And Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax

    by Larry Bell ...
    New revelations demonstrate how politics and powerful special-interest agendas have warped the most important scientific debate of the 21st century. Melting glaciers suffering polar bears rising oceansthese are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research Bell deflates these and other climate ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Cover-Up

    The Crusade to Deny Global Warming

    by James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore ...
    This "must-read book describes in disturbing detail" how the energy industry has fueled a bogus controversy about manmade climate change ( Toronto Star).This book rips the lid off the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. The tactics have been slick, but PR expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist Richard Littlemore have compiled a readable, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expulsions

    Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

    by Saskia Sassen ...
    Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Oil's Deep State

    How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa

    by Kevin Taft ...
    Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming?Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists. Kevin Taft, a former leader of the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD