ISBN:
9783319946702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 146 p. 1 illus. in color, online resource)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Social Sciences
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SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
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Keywords:
Environment Studies
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Environment
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Environmental policy
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Environmental law
;
Environment
;
Environmental policy
;
Environmental law
;
Climate change.
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International environmental law.
;
Energy policy.
;
Energy and state.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-94670-2
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