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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George A. GonzalezPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9780791493908ISBN 10: 0791493903 Pages: 170 Publication Date: 01 January 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews...an interesting critique of the role that business elites played in the suburbanization and urban sprawl that have helped lead to global warming. - Business History Review ...an important piece of scholarship that adds depth and dimension to understanding the politics of U.S. climate policy. - Political Science Quarterly ...[a] highly insightful volume ... At the heart of Gonzalez's book is a revealing historical analysis ... in which he lays out the techniques by which urban sprawl was promoted across the country, and the implications of this for US oil policy. - Environmental Politics Gonzalez offers both an excellent research project and an excellent analysis of theorists who have written on how public policy is created and who creates it. - CHOICE Author InformationGeorge A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion and the coeditor (with Sheldon Kamieniecki and Robert O. Vos) of Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, both also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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