The Hartwell Approach to Climate PolicySteve Rayner, Mark Caine The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group’s collective writings from 1988-2010. Drawing on a rich history of heterodox but increasingly accepted views on climate change policy, this book brings together in a single volume a series of key, related texts that define the ‘Hartwell critique’ of conventional climate change policies and the ‘Hartwell approach’ to building more inclusive, pragmatic alternatives. This book tells of the story of how and why conventional climate policy has failed and, drawing from lessons learned, how it can be renovated. It does so by weaving together three strands of analysis. First, it highlights why the mainstream approach, as embodied by the Kyoto Protocol, has failed to produce real world reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and delayed real meaningful progress on climate change. Second, it explores the underlying political, economic, and technological factors which form the boundary conditions for climate change policy but which are often ignored by policy makers and advocates. Finally, it lays out a novel approach to climate change guided centrally by the goal of uplifting human dignity worldwide—and the recognition that this can only succeed if pursued pragmatically, economically, and with democratic legitimacy. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this work presents a original critique of climate policy and a constructive primer for how to improve it. |
Contents
Politics and the Environment 1990 | |
A Cultural Perspective on the Structure and Implementation of Global | |
an atmosphere of uncertainty | |
Zen and the art of climate maintenance 1997 | |
An emerging critique | |
Prediction and other approaches to climate change policy 2000 | |
Breaking the globalwarming gridlock 2000 | |
What drives environmental policy? 2006 | |
Lifting the taboo on adaptation 2007 | |
Time to ditch Kyoto 2007 | |
From climate crisis to energy challenge | |
Let the global technology race begin 2009 | |
The Hartwell Paper | |
Beyond Hartwell | |
Liberalisms modest proposals 2011 | |
Just say no to greenhouse gas emissions targets 2000 | |
uncertainty and the reality | |
How science makes environmental controversies worse 2004 | |
2006 | |
Climate of failure 2012 | |
Afterword | |