Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Approach

✍ Scribed by Manuela Achilles, Dana Elzey (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic and Multidisciplinary Perspective....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Putting a Price on the Plant: Economic Valuation of Nature’s Services....Pages 13-27
International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?....Pages 28-45
New Directions in Green City Building....Pages 46-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a Volkspartei....Pages 69-90
Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective....Pages 91-103
‘Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!’: Germany’s Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima....Pages 104-127
Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution....Pages 128-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 157-170
Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons from Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia....Pages 171-184
Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights....Pages 185-200
Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg Rhine Park....Pages 201-212
Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach You Can Bank On....Pages 213-220
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 221-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-237

✦ Subjects

Environmental Politics; Environmental Geography; Political Science; Environmental Sociology; Environmental Economics; European Politics