Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy: Government-Industry Discourses

ISBN-13: 9781032081892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str.

Ben L. Parr

Opis

This book delivers an up-to-date explanation for Australia’s weak response to climate change. It contends the dominant‘greenhouse mafia’ theory, which argues that Australia’s weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby. 

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: Australian climate policy and politics; Part I: Conceptual framework; 1 Theory and method; 2 The key discourses; Part II: The cases 3 The Gillard Labor Government (including Rudd 2013);  4 The Abbott Coalition Government;  Conclusion: government–industry compatibility?;  Index

O autorze

Ben L. Parr holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and has researched climate politics at the University of Melbourne for ten years.