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1. Priorities, policies and (time)scales: the delivery of emissions reductions in the UK transport sector.

Author

Anable, Jillian and Shaw, Jon

Subjects
*AIR pollution, *CLIMATE change, *GLOBAL temperature changes, *EMISSION control, *CLIMATOLOGY, *TRANSPORTATION, *GOVERNMENT policy, *CARBON dioxide mitigation, *GLOBAL warming
Abstract

The transport sector is consistently responsible for around 30 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in developed countries and is one of few sectors where emissions continue to increase as a result of apparently insatiable demand for road and air travel. This paper examines how the formulation of transport policy fits into the exposition of UK climate policy, focusing on three principal areas of tension: policy priority (congestion and carbon reduction); strategies to reduce emissions (technological and behavioural solutions) and timescale (short- and long-term vision). We suggest that in overcoming such tensions government ministers will need to devolve significant policy formulation and implementation powers to an appropriate scale of governance – in this case the city-region – to fashion a ‘convergence space’ capable of promoting meaningful action with regard to transport's climate impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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2. Issue Framing and the Domestic Salience of International Environmental Norms: Climate Policy in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Author

Cass, Loren

Subjects
*CLIMATE change, *CLIMATOLOGY, *GLOBAL temperature changes, *GOVERNMENT policy
Abstract

This paper is a draft of a chapter that will be included in the forthcoming edited volume entitled, "The Social Construction of Climate Change." The chapters in the volume present a number of potentially fruitful avenues for analyzing the "social construction of climate change." This paper focuses on the early framing of climate change as a political problem at the international level and the associated normative debates that emerged related to how states should respond to the threat. It then evaluates how the international framing of the problem and the normative debates were translated into the domestic political processes of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The early domestic framing of the problem had profound effects on the political debates in all three countries and played a major role in shaping the degree to which emergent international norms were translated into the domestic policy debates. The paper seeks to explain how and why the political framing of climate change evolved at the international and domestic political levels and explores the consequences of these changes for climate policy in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007