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Anthropocene
Author_Daniel J. Fiorino
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Citizens
Climate Change
climate ethics
Conflict
Consumerism
Democracy
Environment
environmental ethics
environmental policy
environmental politics
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Global Warming
Globalisation
International Political Economy
International Relations
Legislation
Paris 2015
Policy
Politics
Protest
public ethics
Voting
Product details
- ISBN 9781509523962
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 119 x 185mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2018
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate. Some even argue that authoritarian regimes are better equipped to make the tough choices required to tackle the climate crisis.
In this incisive book, Daniel Fiorino challenges the assumptions and evidence offered by sceptics of democracy and its capacity to handle climate change. Democracies, he explains, typically enjoy higher levels of environmental performance and produce greater innovation in technology, policy, and climate governance than autocracies. Rather than less democracy, Fiorino calls for a more accountable and responsive politics that will provide democratically-elected governments with the enhanced capacity for collective action on climate and other environmental issues.
In this incisive book, Daniel Fiorino challenges the assumptions and evidence offered by sceptics of democracy and its capacity to handle climate change. Democracies, he explains, typically enjoy higher levels of environmental performance and produce greater innovation in technology, policy, and climate governance than autocracies. Rather than less democracy, Fiorino calls for a more accountable and responsive politics that will provide democratically-elected governments with the enhanced capacity for collective action on climate and other environmental issues.
Daniel J Fiorino is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy at American University
