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PUBLICATIONID : 47976
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 1
TYPE : Article
TITLE : Harvesting experience: A reappraisal of the US Climate Change Action Plan
ORIG_TITLE : Harvesting experience: A reappraisal of the US Climate Change Action Plan
AUTHOR : Brunner, RD and R Klein
FIRST_AUTHOR : Brunner, RD and R Klein
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : Univ Colorado, Ctr Publ Policy Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
PUBLISHER : KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 3
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Policy Sci.
BEGINPAGE : 133
ENDPAGE : 161
VOLUME : 32
ISSUE : 2
PUBLISH_DATE : JUN
YEAR : 1999
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/1999.17.pdf
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : ISI:000081572000002
CITATION : 13
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2012-12-06 14:25:17
ISSN : 0032-2687
IDS : 218UU
ABSTRACT : For mitigating climate change and adapting to whatever impacts we cannot avoid, there are no politically feasible alternatives to improvements in the U.S. Climate Change Action Plan at this time or for the foreseeable future. Yet improvements in the Action Plan have been obstructed by the diversion of attention and other resources to negotiating a binding international agreement, to developing a predictive understanding of global change, and to documenting the failure of the Action Plan to meet its short-term goal for the reduction of aggregate greenhouse gas emissions. Continuous improvements depend upon reallocating attention and other resources to the Action Plan, and more specifically, to the many small-scale policies that have already succeeded by climate change and `no regrets' criteria under the Action Plan. Sustaining the effort over the long term depends on harvesting experience from these small-scale successes for diffusion and adaptation elsewhere on a voluntary basis.
KEYWORD_PLUS : GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH; POLICY; CONVENTION; SCIENCE
AREA : Planning & Development; Public Administration; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
PUBLICATION : POLICY SCIENCES
PLACE : DORDRECHT
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 47976
PAGES : 133-161
APPROVED : yes
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Brunner, RD, Univ Colorado, Ctr Publ Policy Res, Campus Box 333, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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