The 20th anniversary issue of Global Environmental Change provides an important
opportunity to address the core questions involved in addressing “global environmental” …

Scholars embrace multilevel governance as an analytical framework for complex problems,
such as climate change or water pollution. However, the elements needed to …

Many diverse actions can be taken to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Increasingly in the United States, policy-makers at sub-national levels are setting emission …

An exploration of commercially available technologies that can enhance energy security and
address climate change and public policy options crucial to their adoption. Tackling climate …

Despite exhortations to the contrary,'the federal government continues to address issues of
purely local effect while the states continue to address issues of national-and even …

Debate over floors versus ceilings was, until recently, largely hypothetical, due to the rarity of
federal imposition of ceilings. During the past year, however, in settings ranging from …

The two sides of the environmental law field, pollution control and resource management,
share a common focus on the natural materials and services that sustain healthy lives and …

Bridging the fields of federalism and negotiation theory, Negotiating Federalism analyzes
how public actors navigate difficult federalism terrain by negotiating directly with …

A hallmark of environmental federalism is that neither federal nor state governments limit
themselves to what many legal scholars have deemed to be their appropriate domains. The …

Generally, the debate over environmental federalism strongly focuses on anecdotal
evidence and intuition. Empirical facts have not been the focus of arguments concerning the …