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Environmental sustainability in transatlantic perspective a multidisciplinary approach /

Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.

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Group Author: Achilles, Manuela.; Elzey, Dana.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Energy, climate and the environment
Subjects:
Green technology > Economic aspects > Germany.
Green technology > Economic aspects > United States.
Environmental policy > Germany.
Environmental policy > United States.
Social impact of environmental issues > USA. > USA.
Sustainability > USA. > USA.
Comparative politics > USA. > USA.
Conservation of the environment > USA. > USA.
Environment and Ecology.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137334480
Summary: Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137334473, 2013.
Carrier Form: 256 p. : 3 b&w, 16 b&w line drawings, halftones, 1.
ISBN: 9781137334480 :
1137334487 :
CLC: X3
Contents: Introduction-- Manuela Achilles and Dana Elzey PART I. BROADER CONTEXTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Putting a Price on the Planet: Economic Valuation of Nature's Services-- Mark White 2. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?-- Peter Debaere 3. New Directions in Green City Building-- Timothy Beatley PART II. GERMANY'S ENERGY REVOLUTION 4. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a People's Party-- Arne Jungjohann 5. Germany's Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective-- Michael Mehling 6. 'Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!': Germany's Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima-- Manuela Achilles 7. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution-- Brian Marrs PART III. TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION AT THE MACRO AND MICRO LEVELS 8. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities-- Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue and Carmen Kristan 9. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons From Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia-- Dale Medearis 10. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights-- Dana M. Elzey and Kerstin Steitz 11. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg RhinePark-- Jorg Sieweke 12. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach you Can Bank On-- Eugene Ryang.

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