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Author Hamilton, Clive.

Title Running from the storm : the development of climate change policy in Australia / Clive Hamilton
Published Sydney : UNSW Press, 2001

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Description xiii, 178 pages : charts ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary This text provides an account of the key issues that affect climate change policy in Australia, detailing the policy failures, the murky politics, the corruption of the policy process, the influence of the fossil-fuel industries on policy makers, and the ethical issues that underpin the debate
Analysis Greenhouse effect
Air pollution
Energy consumption
Kyoto Protocol
Economic models
Fossil fuels
Statistics
Developing countries
Federal issue
Australia overseas comparisons
Political issues (Australia ) Environmental studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9). Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99009211
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9). http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92029491 Protocols, etc (1997 December 11)
Subject Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Australia.
Greenhouse gases -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
Greenhouse gas mitigation -- Government policy -- Australia.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
Climatic changes -- International cooperation.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
Author Hamilton, Clive.
LC no. 00002270
ISBN 0868406120