Changing Climates in North American Politics December 16, 2009

Changing Climates in North American Politics is the first book to examine and compare political action for climate change across North America, at levels ranging from continental to municipal, in locations ranging from Mexico to Toronto to Portland, Maine. It finds that although national climate policies vary widely, the complexities and divergences are even greater at the subnational level. Policy initiatives are developed separately in states, provinces, cities, large corporations, NAFTA bodies, universities, NGOs, and private firms, and this lack of coordination limits the effectiveness of multilevel climate change governance. In North America, unlike much of Europe, climate change governance has been largely bottom-up rather than top-down.

Please join the Canada Institute and Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of the themes and issues raised in Changing Climates. The program will feature comments from the book’s editors Stacy VanDeveer, associate professor of political science, University of New Hampshire and Henrik Selin, director of Graduate Studies and assistant professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University.

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